| A | B |
|---|
| Blockade | to close ports |
| 54th Massachusetts | African American Regiment |
| Greenbacks | Union money |
| Abraham Lincoln | Union president |
| Washington DC | Union capital |
| Jefferson Davis | Confederate president |
| Copperheads | Peace democrats |
| Offensive | to go on attack |
| Yankees | Union soldiers |
| Rebels | Confederate soldiers |
| Richmond, Virginia | Confederate Capital |
| Casualties | people wounded or killed |
| Emancipation | to free enslaved people |
| Ratify | to approve |
| Inflation | general increase of prices |
| Clara Barton | founded the American Red Cross |
| Entrenched | set up in a strong position in the ground |
| Habeas corpus | guarentees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed |
| Total war | Sherman's "march to the sea" |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed all slaves in areas of rebellion against the Union |
| Antietam | single bloodiest day of entire war |
| Atlanta | this North victory increased Lincoln's chances of winning re-election |
| Vicksburg | gave control of entire Mississippi River to the Union and cut the South in half |
| Seven Days battle | Union failed to capture Richmond |
| Appomattox Court House | Surrender of General Lee to General Grant |
| Shiloh | two-day battle to gain control of Missippi River; contributed to Memphis falling to Union on June 6, 1862 |
| Monitor vs. Merrimack | First battle between two iron-clad ships |
| First Battle of Bull Run | First major battle of the Civil War |
| Gettysburg | Union was able to drive Lee and the Confederate forces back to the South after Lee invaded the North in 1863 |
| Stonewall Jackson | Revived the Confederate troops with the "Rebel Yell" at the First Battle of Bull Run; accidently shot by his own men at Chancellorsville |
| David Farragut | Captured New Orleans and took control of Gulf of Mexico |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Led Union troops from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia destroying everything in his path |
| Robert E Lee | Head of Confederate forces |
| George Pickett | Confederate general who led a charge against Union forces at Gettysburg |
| George Meade | General in charge of Union Forces at Gettysburg |
| George McClellan | General that was first placed in charge of Army of Potomac that took care of fighting in the East |
| Ambrose Burnside | Union general at Battle of Fredricksburg |
| Ulysses S Grant | General in charge of Union forces at Shiloh and Vicksburg |
| 13th Amendment | The amendment that freed the slaves |
| Draft and Bounties | the two ways that the Union used to get soldiers to enlist in the Army |
| borrowed money, increased taxes, and printed money | The three ways that both the North and the South tried to raise money for the war |
| West Virginia | The state that was formed during the civil war due to not wanting to secede with the rest of the state |
| Petersburg | the city that fell to the Union troops that allowed them to take Richmond |
| Seven Days battles and Petersburg | two battles that were fought to gain control of Richmond |
| Spies | BEsides being in the army, one of the roles of African Americans in the North during the war |
