| A | B |
|---|
| Racism | belief that one race is superior to another. |
| Border States | Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland remained in the Union. |
| Martial law | rule by the army instead of the elected government. |
| Robert E. Lee | commander of the Confederate army. |
| Stonewall Jackson | Lee's right hand man/most skillful general |
| Battle of Bull Run | first battle of the civil war/July 21, 1861 |
| George McClellan | first commander of the Union army/was too cautious |
| Merrimack | abandoned Union warship captured by Confederates/turned into ironclad ship/used to sink Union ships |
| Monitor | Union's ironclad battleship that fought to a tie with the Merrimack |
| Battle of Antietam | September 17, 1862/first union victory/McClellan loses his job |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | one of the Union's worst defeats/most lopsided battle |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | Conferate victory/ General Stonewall Jackson was killed by mistake by Confederates after the battle was over |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Won the battle of vicksburg/Becomes commanding general of the Union Army in 1864 |
| Battle of Shiloh | Union victory/very bloody/Union begins to control the Mississippi River |
| emancipate | to free |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in rebellion against the Union |
| discrimination | policy that denies equal rights and treatment to certain groups of people |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | first African-American regiment(group of soldiers) in the United States |
| civilians | people who are not in the army |
| Copperheads | Northern who were against the war |
