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| 15979079244 | Crittenden Compromise | A plan proposed by Senator John J. Crittenden for a constitutional amendment to protect slavery from federal interference in any state where it already existed and for the westward extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the California border. | 0 | |
| 15979079245 | total war | A form of warfare that mobilizes all of a societies resources-economic, political and cultural-in support of the military effort. | 1 | |
| 15979079246 | Draft (conscription) | The system for selecting individuals for compulsory military service, first implemented in the Civil War | 2 | |
| 15979079247 | habeas corpus | A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual. | 3 | |
| 15979079248 | King Cotton | The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. | 4 | |
| 15979079249 | greenbacks | Paper money issued by the U. S. Treasury during Civil War to finance the war effort. | 5 | |
| 15979079250 | "contrabands" | Slaves who fled the plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. | 6 | |
| 15979079251 | Radical Republicans | The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slaveholders since the mid-1850s. | 7 | |
| 15979079252 | Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by President Lincoln, legally abolished slavery that remained outside of the union. | 8 | |
| 15979079253 | scorched-earth campaign | A campaign in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia by Union general Philip H. Sheridan's troops. The troops destroyed grain, barns, and other useful resources to punish farmers who had aided Confederate raiders. | 9 | |
| 15979079254 | "War" and "Peace" Democrats | Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War. War Democrats vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended, while Peace Democrats called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement. | 10 | |
| 15979079255 | "hard war" | The philosophy and tactics used by General Sherman which treated civilians as combatants. | 11 | |
| 15979079256 | March to the Sea | Military campaign from September to December 1864 in which Union forces under General Sherman marched from Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia. Carved a path of destruction. | 12 | |
| 15979079257 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th president Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis.[1][2] In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. |  | 13 |
| 15979079258 | Jefferson Davis | An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865. led South against the Union. |  | 14 |
| 15979079259 | Robert E. Lee | He was offered the command of the U.S. Army, but resigned to defend his home state of Virginia. |  | 15 |
| 15979079260 | George McClellan | The commander of the Union army in the East. After extensive training of his army, he invaded Virginia in March 1862. The Union army was stopped as a result of brilliant tactical moves by the Confederate army. After five months he was forced to retreat to the Potomac, and was replaced by General John Pope | 16 | |
| 15979079261 | Ulysses S. Grant | appointed by Lincoln to create strategies for Union. willing to except his own men's deaths if it meant winning. caused many Union casualties while denting the Confederate population. ordered a scorched earth campaign, where Confederate lands were to be destroyed. known as the leading Union Army general. |  | 17 |
| 15979079262 | William T. Sherman | He commanded the Union army in Tennessee. In September of 1864 his troops captured Atlanta, Georgia. He then headed to take Savannah. This was his famous "march to the sea.". His troops burned barns and houses, and destroyed the countryside. His march showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should be destroyed. Civilian centers could also be targets. | 18 |
