| A | B |
|---|
| Fort Sumter | Began the Civil War |
| Anaconda Plan | Union Strategy to win the war |
| first battle of Bull Run | first major battle of the Civil War |
| Farmers | largest number of soldiers in the war |
| Antietam | bloodies one day battle of the Civil War |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate General |
| Ulysses S. Grant | important union general in the West |
| rifles | advance in technology which made the war more deadly |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | couragous Confederate general at the first battle of Bull Run |
| secede | to withdraw from the Union |
| South Carolina | first state to leave the union following Lincoln's election |
| Gettysburg | Union victory most causalties Lincoln made emancipation a new cause |
| Appomattox Court House | Lee surrendered to Grant here |
| Vicksburg | Union victory gave control of the Mississippi River |
| John Wilkes Booth | person who assassinated President Lincoln |
| Clara Barton | put in charge of Union nurses and started the Red Cross |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Freed slaves in the South |
| bounty | money given to encourage enlistment |
| conscription | draft; poor southern whites said unfair |
| greenbacks | Money the North issued |
| income tax | The North taxed income to help pay for the war |
| copperheads | term describing Northern Democrats who wanted to make peace with the South |
| Harriet Tubman | freed slaves on the underground railroad |
| 54th Massachussets | African American soldiers who fought a Fort Wagner |
| guerrilla warfare | hit and run surprise attacks |
| total warfare | General Sherman destroyed everything in the South |
