| A | B |
| Harriet Tubman | supported a secret route that escaped slaves took |
| Nat Turner | led a revolt against plantation owners |
| John Brown | led a raid on the U.S. Armory at Harper's Ferry |
| Abraham Lincoln | became president in 1860 |
| slave state | a state that allowed slavery |
| free state | a state that did not allow slavery |
| Union | name for the northern states |
| Confederacy | name for the southern states |
| western counties of Va. | favored abolition of slavery and staying with Union |
| eastern counties of Va. | favored slavery and secession |
| Battle of Bull Run | also called Manassas |
| Fredericksburg | Lee defeated Union troops here |
| Appomattox Court House | where Lee surrendered to Grant |
| April, 1865 | when the Civil War ended |
| Stonewall Jackson | got his name at the Battle of Bull Run |
| Robert E. Lee | commander of the Confederate army |
| Ulysses S. Grant | commander of the Union army |
| Merrimac | the Confederate ironclad ship |
| Monitor | the Union ironclad ship |
| Virginia coast | where the first ironclad battle was fought |