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| 2423265629 | Fort Sumter | one of the only two forts that still hung the American flag; located in Charleston harbor with fewer than a hundred men and run by Major Anderson | 0 | |
| 2423265630 | Starting Date of Civil War | April 12, 1861 at 4:30 | 1 | |
| 2423266838 | Border States | only slave states that had not seceded consisting of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware | 2 | |
| 2423266839 | West Virginia | the "mountain white" area that somewhat illegally tore itself from the side of VA to become a free state | 3 | |
| 2423268682 | Robert E. Lee | one of the most talented officers of the Confederate States | 4 | |
| 2423269733 | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | another of the most talented of the Confederate States who fought in the Battle of Bull Run | 5 | |
| 2423269734 | Ulysses S. Grant | successful military leader in the Union | 6 | |
| 2423276078 | Abner Doubleday | credited with the invention of baseball | 7 | |
| 2423276079 | Edmund Ruffin | first man to fire in the Civil War | 8 | |
| 2423277303 | Trent Affair | 1861 Union warship removed to Confederate soldiers (Sidell and Mason) from the Trent. British are outraged and say if they aren't released Britain will declare war so Lincoln released the prisoners and apologized | 9 | |
| 2423277304 | Alabama | ships were sent to Portuguese Azores where they are given guns and made warships; Supposedly British but carried a Confederate flag; Was later challenged and destroyed; Charles Francis Adams → decision that these ships are dangerous and will be threatening in the future | 10 | |
| 2423278363 | Laird Rams | two Confederate war ships being constructed in the shipyard of John Laird and Sons in GB. Designed to destroy the wooden ships of the Union with rams; London gov bought the ships so they could stay neutral | 11 | |
| 2423278364 | Dominion of Canada | Britain established Canada as a dominion to bolster them politically and spiritually against U.S. | 12 | |
| 2423279996 | Habeas Corpus | people thrown in jail for wrongdoings without a trial. It was suspended by Lincoln | 13 | |
| 2423281814 | Bounty Jumping | enlisting for money under different names in different areas | 14 | |
| 2423281815 | New York Draft Rioters | riots in NY against the forced draft | 15 | |
| 2423283176 | Homestead Act of 1852 | Lincoln wanted the Northerners to spread west so he offered $10 per 160 acres of land | 16 | |
| 2423285250 | U.S. Sanitary Commission | assist Union armies in the field by training nurses, collecting medical supplies, and equipped hospitals (Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell) | 17 | |
| 2423286444 | Clara Barton | founder of Red Cross | 18 |
