The American Pageant, 13th Edition
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| 1115481024 | Fort Sumter | A federal fort in the south , Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | 1 | |
| 1115481025 | Border States | The states between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri | 2 | |
| 1115481026 | The Alabama | A warship built by the British to aid the confederates that helped to destroy many merchant ships from the north. | 3 | |
| 1115481027 | New York City Draft Riots | Riots that broke out after the announcement of a draft for soldiers to fight in the war | 4 | |
| 1115481028 | Jefferson Davis | An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. | 5 | |
| 1115481029 | Billy Yank | A nickname for the northern soldiers. | 6 | |
| 1115481030 | Johnny Reb | A nickname for the confederate soldiers. | 7 | |
| 1115481031 | Emancipation Proclamation | An order issued by Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves in the confederate states. | 8 | |
| 1115481032 | Bull Run | It was the first real battle of the civil war, and was also a confederate victory. | 9 | |
| 1115481033 | George McClellan | A union general who was later fired by Lincoln for not moving troops to Richmond | 10 | |
| 1115481034 | Stonewall Jackson | Brave commander of the Confederate Army that led troops at Bull Run. He died in the confusion at the Battle of Chancellorsville. | 11 | |
| 1115481035 | Robert E. Lee | A General for the confederates, fought many battles. One of his main plans towards the end of the civil war was to wait for a new president to come into office to make peace with. Fought Peninsular Campaign, 2nd battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (with Jackson), and Gettysburg. | 12 | |
| 1115481036 | Ulysses Grant | an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. | 13 | |
| 1115481037 | Battle Of Gettysburg | Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North. | 14 | |
| 1115481038 | Battle of Antietam | Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties | 15 | |
| 1115481039 | Gettysburg Address | (1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights | 16 | |
| 1115481040 | William Tecumseh Sherman | United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West. He captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891) | 17 | |
| 1115481041 | Sherman's "total war" | Sherman's "March to the Sea". Sherman and his troops burned down and destroyed anything and everything they could. | 18 | |
| 1115481042 | Copperheads | A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War | 19 | |
| 1115481043 | Clement Vallandigham | Prominent Copperhead who was an ex-congressman from Ohio, demanded an end to the war, and was banished to the Confederacy | 20 | |
| 1115481044 | Presidential Election of 1864 | a presidential election that pitted Abraham Lincoln (Republican) against Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democrat), John Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), and John Bell (Constitutional Union Party); the main issue of the election was the debate over the expansion of slavery; Lincoln won and South Carolina seceded | 21 | |
| 1115481045 | Appomattox courthouse | the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War | 22 | |
| 1115481046 | John Wilkes Booth | Abraham Lincoln's assasin | 23 | |
| 1115481047 | 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery | 24 | |
| 1115481048 | Military Reconstruction | Act of 1867 that established military governments in ten Confederate states-excepting Tennessee-and required that the states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and permit freedmen to vote. | 25 | |
| 1115481049 | 15th Amendment | The right to vote for all races | 26 | |
| 1115481050 | Thaddeus Stevens | Man behind the 14th Amendment. He was known as a Radical Republican | 27 | |
| 1115481051 | Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights | 28 | |
| 1115481052 | Carpetbaggers | A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states; | 29 | |
| 1115481053 | Impeachment of Johnson | He was impeached because he violated the Tenure of Office Act, but it was really because of his stubborn defiance against Congress on Reconstruction. | 30 | |
| 1115481054 | "Seward's Folly" | Secretary of State William Seward's negotiation of the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. At the time everyone thought this was a mistake to buy Alaska the "ice box" but it turned out to be the biggest bargain since the Louisiana purchase | 31 |
