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| 7556424293 | Richmond, Virginia | Capital of the Confederacy | 0 | |
| 7556424294 | Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri | 4 slave states that stayed in the Union; called border states | 1 | |
| 7556424295 | Why did West Virginia break away? | Because they were Appalachian whites that did not believe in slavery | 2 | |
| 7556424296 | The original goal of the war for the North? | preserving the Union | 3 | |
| 7556424297 | advantages of the North | population, industry, transportation & communication networks | 4 | |
| 7556424305 | Advantages of the South | Fighting a defensive war (fighting for their way of life), fighting in their own territory, military leadership, and their people were united | 5 | |
| 7556424306 | Disadvantages of the North | Fighting in the South (foreign territory), have to conquer a massive amount of territory, harder to define the war aims of the North, and the population wasn't as united as the South | 6 | |
| 7556424309 | Robert E. Lee | Most famous Confederate General | 7 | |
| 7556424311 | Ulysses S. Grant | Union general who broke the war stalemate and led the army until the end of the war | 8 | |
| 7556424313 | Confederate president | Jefferson Davis | 9 | |
| 7556424314 | Union president | Abraham Lincoln | 10 | |
| 7556424317 | Major cash crop of the South | Cotton (King Cotton) | 11 | |
| 7556424325 | Greenbacks | Type of paper money issued by the U.S. government and the price of these went up and down with the fortunes of war | 12 | |
| 7556424331 | Clara Barton & Dorothea Dix | Leaders of nurses in the Civil War | 13 | |
| 7556424332 | Women's job in North during war | Had to fill men's positions when they went to fight. Became factory workers, clerks, farmers, etc. | 14 | |
| 7556424333 | What did women in the South do during the war? | Had to manage farms and plantations when men went off to war | 15 | |
| 7556424335 | Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) | First battle of the Civil War | 16 | |
| 7556424337 | Stonewall Jackson | Gen. Lee's right hand man, shot by his own men accidentally, "There stands Jackson like a...." | 17 | |
| 7556424338 | Great skedaddle | The ragtag group of civilians and soldiers from the Union left Bull Run | 18 | |
| 7556424340 | Anaconda Plan | Blockade the Confederate coast; divide the Confederacy by controlling the Mississippi River | 19 | |
| 7556424341 | Goals of the South | The British/French will ally with the South; Keep fighting until Northerners are tired of fighting; Hold on until Lincoln loses the election of 1864 | 20 | |
| 7556424352 | Battle of Antietam | Convinced the British not to support the South | 21 | |
| 7556424353 | Battle of Shiloh | Convinced both sides that it would be a long and bloody war | 22 | |
| 7556424356 | Why was Lincoln upset with Gen. McClellan? | He didn't want to use or waste his troops so he was not aggressively waging war | 23 | |
| 7556424358 | In 1863, the purpose of the war for the Union changed, what was it? | The purpose was no longer about saving the Union, but about abolishing slavery | 24 | |
| 7556424360 | Emancipation Proclamation | Declared free the slaves in Confederate areas still in rebellion. (Did not free any slaves in border states) | 25 | |
| 7556424362 | Name of charge at Gettysburg | Pickett's charge | 26 | |
| 7556424363 | Vicksburg | When Gen. Grant captured this town, it gave the North control of the Mississippi River; early July 1863; turning point with the Battle of Gettysburg | 27 | |
| 7556424364 | Gettysburg Address | Name of speech Lincoln gave in 1863 and is considered one of the best speeches ever | 28 | |
| 7556424368 | Atlanta | Georgia town burned by Gen. Sherman | 29 | |
| 7556424369 | "March to the Sea" | When Sherman tried to make the civilians lose their will to fight. He went from Atlanta to Savannah and destroyed everything in his army's path. He did not burn Savannah, gave it to Lincoln as a Christmas present | 30 | |
| 7556424378 | Lincoln's assassin | John Wilkes Booth | 31 | |
| 7556424379 | 13th Amendment | Amendment that freed the slaves | 32 | |
| 7609606059 | Wilmot Proviso | Bill that proposed slavery not be allowed in the Mexican Cession | 33 | |
| 7609623766 | Compromise of 1850 | California is a free state, Fugitive Slave Act, popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession, no slave trade in Washington, DC, redrew borders of Texas | 34 | |
| 7609635665 | Fugitive Slave Law | Required Northern states to help in capturing and returning any escaped slaves | 35 | |
| 7609643032 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Split territory into two parts, slavery issue would be decided by popular sovereignty | 36 | |
| 7609655285 | popular sovereignty | The people of an area decide what their government will be. "people rule" | 37 | |
| 7609663043 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | A best-selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil | 38 | |
| 7609669561 | Lincoln-Douglas debates | Debates held during Illinois Senate campaign, Lincoln lost the election but gained recognition outside of Illinois | 39 | |
| 7609682648 | Missouri Compromise | Maine is a free state, Missouri is a slave state, no slavery north of the 36*30' line | 40 | |
| 7609698967 | "Bleeding Kansas" | Term for the violent conflicts in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers | 41 | |
| 7609714807 | Pottawatomie massacre | John Brown and his followers killed five men by dismembering them because they were proslavery | 42 | |
| 7609721406 | Ostend Manifesto | Attempt to buy Cuba from Spain for $20 million - not carried out; looking to expand slavery | 43 | |
| 7609728045 | Republican Party | Political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery | 44 | |
| 7609732482 | Free-Soil Party | political party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories | 45 | |
| 7609735410 | Liberty Party | Party that was completely opposed to slavery; wanted to end all slavery in the U.S. | 46 | |
| 7609742493 | Dred Scott ruling | Congress cannot ban slavery in the territories; blacks (free or slave) are not U.S. citizens and cannot sue in court | 47 | |
| 7609751622 | Freeport Doctrine | Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it | 48 | |
| 7609757478 | Harper's Ferry | a attempt to steal weapons for a slave revolt led by John Brown | 49 | |
| 7609761233 | John Brown | a fervent abolitionist who believed God had chosen him to end slavery | 50 | |
| 7609765046 | Fort Sumter | first shots of the Civil War were fired here. | 51 | |
| 7609771528 | Battle of Gettysburg | Civil War battle in PA that was won by the Union and became the turning point of the war, July 1-3, 1863 | 52 | |
| 7609781298 | Homestead Act of 1862 | Any citizen could buy 160 acres of land for a small fee if they met certain conditions | 53 | |
| 7609785377 | Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 | Gave states federal land to sell; money for agricultural and mechanical colleges | 54 | |
| 7609795595 | Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad connecting the West and East coasts of the continental U.S.; started in 1862 & completed in 1869 | 55 | |
| 7609813463 | Sharecropping | farming someone else's land while paying a share of the crops raised for rent | 56 | |
| 7609817840 | Radical Republicans | Those in Congress who wanted to make South pay dearly for the Civil War | 57 | |
| 7609822095 | Black codes | Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves | 58 | |
| 7609824228 | Jim Crow laws | Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites | 59 | |
| 7609826861 | 14th Amendment | Defines citizenship and grants equal protection under the law for all citizens. | 60 | |
| 7609830576 | 15th Amendment | States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race. | 61 | |
| 7609836396 | Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan | A state could rejoin the Union once 10% of the 1860 voters took an oath of loyalty to the U.S. | 62 | |
| 7609843397 | Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's Vice President; became President after Lincoln's assassination | 63 | |
| 7609851490 | Tenure of Office Act | Required the president to seek approval from the Senate before removing appointees. | 64 | |
| 7609855091 | Impeachment process | House impeaches - Senate conducts trial - only removed from office if convicted in the Senate | 65 | |
| 7609875849 | Charles Sumner | Republican idealist who pushed for black rights and was nearly beaten to death with a cane by Rep. Preston. S Brooks | 66 | |
| 7609890574 | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater, while watching a play three days after the war ends; part of a larger plot against government leaders | 67 | |
| 7609910262 | Radical Reconstruction | Divided the South into 5 military districts; made it much harder to rejoin the Union | 68 | |
| 7609918510 | Carpetbaggers | Northerner that traveled to the South to make a profit or run for political office after the Civil War | 69 | |
| 7609926050 | Scalawags | Southern whites who supported Radical Reconstruction. | 70 | |
| 7609929322 | Freedman's Bureau | a federal agency to help former slaves get their lives on track; education, help with contracts, etc. | 71 | |
| 7609938886 | Credit Mobilier | Railroad construction company was overcharging the government; paid bribes to Congressmen to avoid being stopped | 72 | |
| 7609955917 | Whiskey Ring | IRS agents took bribes from whiskey distillers weren't paying taxes | 73 | |
| 7609966530 | Election of 1876 | Close election - disputed electoral votes in reconstructed states - Tilden won popular vote but Hayes is awarded the presidency by a special commission | 74 | |
| 7609978192 | Compromise of 1877 | Hayes is president; military troops removed from South, Democrat appointed to Cabinet, $ spent on internal improvements in the South (roads, canals, RR) | 75 | |
| 7609984488 | Redeemers | Democratic supporters of white-controlled governments in the South in the 1870s | 76 | |
| 7609992072 | poll taxes | way of circumventing the 14th Amendment and denying civil rights to African Americans by taxing votes | 77 | |
| 7610001059 | literacy tests | Required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution to vote | 78 | |
| 7610007926 | grandfather clauses | only can vote if your grandfather could, no blacks can vote | 79 | |
| 7610013556 | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties | 80 | |
| 7610016865 | Plessy v. Ferguson | ruled that the "separate but equal" law did not violate the 14th amendment | 81 | |
| 7610020712 | lynching | to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority | 82 | |
| 7804425782 | Jim Crow | Segregation laws | 83 | |
| 7804428193 | Slaughterhouse cases | Supreme Court rules that the 14th Amendment refers to national government, not states | 84 | |
| 7804442809 | Civil Rights Act 1875 | Prohibited discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of race. In 1883 the Supreme Court overturned it and set the stage for legal discrimination | 85 | |
| 7804453429 | Thomas Nast | Father of the American political cartoon | 86 |
