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| 5519532069 | Total War | The the array of the entire resources of the two societies against each other | 0 | |
| 5519535373 | - Exempted one white man for every twenty slaves to exempt large plantation owners - Draftees could hire substitutes. "Rich man's war, poor man's fight" | Confederate draft loopholes | 1 | |
| 5519538812 | Habeas corpus | was a legal instrument to protect people from arbitrary arrest and ordered the Confederate army to release reluctant draftees. | 2 | |
| 5519539705 | Militia Act | Act that set local recruitment quotas in the North and signed up a million men - men avoided service through substitutes or a $300 commutation fee in North | 3 | |
| 5519542141 | Enrollment Act | Act that initiated conscription in the North and was opposed by recent German and Irish immigrants. | 4 | |
| 5519546552 | burning offices, sacking homes of Republicans, and attacking the police as well as lynching blacks and driving them out of their home and burned the Colored Orphan Asylum | How immigrants violently resisted war, in New York City | 5 | |
| 5519548259 | U.S. Sanitary Commission / Freedman's Aid Society | provided medial services | 6 | |
| 5519551054 | Dorothea Dix | served as superintendent of female nurses in Sanitary Commission and the Freedman's Aid Society | 7 | |
| 5519557939 | Homestead Act | Act that gave heads of families title to 160 acres of public land after five years of residence | 8 | |
| 5519564634 | National Banking Acts | Act forced banks to purchase treasury bonds | 9 | |
| 5519566898 | The Legal Tender Act | act authorized the issue of $150 million in treasury notes | 10 | |
| 5519568065 | greenbacks | nickname for treasury notes | 11 | |
| 5519576480 | Confiscation Act | allowed seizure of all property (including slaves) to be used for support | 12 | |
| 5519578218 | Salmon Chase, Charles Sumner, and Thaddeus Stevens | Radical Republicans that persuaded Congress to end slavery in DC by providing compensation for owners. | 13 | |
| 5519582366 | Second Confiscation | Confederate official, military or civilian, who did not surrender within 60 days of the act's passage would have their slaves freed in criminal proceedings | 14 | |
| 5519584280 | Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln ban on slavery | 15 | |
| 5519597859 | anaconda plan | the Union used the Navy blockade the Southern ports which would cut off all essential supplies from reaching the South. | 16 | |
| 5519602001 | alabama | Confederate commerce raiders used the Alabama to capture more than 60 Union ships. It was eventually sunk and Great Britain agreed to pay the U.S. $15.5 million for damages | 17 | |
| 5519603368 | gettysburg | General Lee lead the Confederate troops into Pennsylvania most crucial and bloodiest of the war. General George Pickett led a charge that broke the Confederate attack.The victory belonged to Lincoln and the Union. | 18 | |
| 5519611880 | General Ulysses S. Grant | in charge of all Union armies | 19 | |
| 5519617777 | the National Union Party | lincoln and his allies took a new name | 20 | |
| 5519624204 | the Thirteenth Amendment | prohibit slavery | 21 | |
| 5519633278 | Confederate Collapse/Appomattox | Southern soldiers began to mutiny. The Confederacy was so desperate they attempted to enlist black soldiers. However, the war ended too soon to see if any blacks would fight. Their supplies were cut off, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House and by late May almost all of the confederacy had collapsed. | 22 | |
| 5519637713 | contrabands | were the slaves that were not "legally" freed. In the aftermath of the war, they used the confusion to seize freedom for themselves and escaped to the North. | 23 | |
| 5522432393 | Sherman | General in Georgia that needed to win for Lincoln to win election | 24 | |
| 5522437900 | Vicksburg | battle for control of mississippi river. Union's goal to split Confederacy and restore free commerce to NW An attempt to take Vicksburg, Miss by water and from N. failed. Grant decided to take it from South and opened siege; Confederate forces unable to unite, and after about six weeks Vicksburg's defenders surrendered on July 4, 1863 | 25 |
