| A | B |
| Union? | Those states that wanted to keep the United States together. |
| Confederate States of America? | The Southern States that seceded from the Union. |
| Rebels? | Soldiers of the Confederacy |
| Blue Coats? | Soldiers of the Union |
| Free State? | States forbidding slavery |
| Slave State? | States permitting slavery |
| Jefferson Davis? | President of the Confederacy |
| Abraham Lincoln? | President of the United States during the Civil War |
| South Carolina? | First state to secede from the Union |
| Harriet Tubman? | Conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Underground Railroad? | Escape route for slaves from the South to the North |
| Abolitionists? | People who wanted to end slavery |
| Secede? | To leave |
| Fort Sumter? | The attack was the beginning of the Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation? | Written by Lincoln to set the slaves in the Confederacy free |
| emancipate? | to set free |