| A | B |
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| Confederacy | the 11 Southern states that separated from the United States and called itself the Confederate States of America |
| secede | to withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance |
| Union | the 22 Northern States during the Civil War |
| Robert E. Lee | General of the Confederacy |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Stonewall Jackson | General of the Confederacy |
| Bull Run | 1st Battle of Civil War |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States |
| George B. McClellan | Union General |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union General |
| Tecumseh Sherman | Union General |
| Merrimac | Conferderate ironclad battleship |
| Monitor | Union ironclad battleship |
| moderate | an individual opposed to extreme views or measures in politics or religion |
| emancipation | a condition of being freed from oppression, bondage or restraint |
| civil rights | rights belonging to a person because of his or her status as a citizen or as a member of society |
| draft | a call to military service |
| Ellen Goodridge | Union soldier |
| Mathew Brady | Civil War photographer |
| Phillip Henry Sheridan | Union General |
| George G. Meade | Union General |
| Appomattox | place where Confederacy surrendered |
