Definitions from chapter 16 of the "Out of Many" AP United States History textbook
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| 1149000612 | legal tender act | act creating a national currency in February 1862 | 0 | |
| 1149000613 | national bank act | act prohibiting state banks from issuing their own notes and forcing them to apply for federal charters | 1 | |
| 1149000614 | morrill tariff act | act that raised tariffs to more than double their prewar rate | 2 | |
| 1149000615 | homestead act | law passed by Congress in May of 1862 providing homesteads with 160 acres of free land in exchange for improving the land within five years of the grant | 3 | |
| 1149000616 | morrill land grant act | law passed by Congress in July 1862 awarding proceeds from the sale of public lands to the states for the establishment of agricultural and mechanical colleges | 4 | |
| 1149000617 | peninsular campaign | union offensive led by McClellan with the objective of capturing Richmond | 5 | |
| 1149000618 | emancipation proclamation | decree announced by President Abraham Lincoln in September 1862 and formally issued on January 1, 1863, freeing slaves in all Confederate states still in rebellion | 6 | |
| 1149000619 | thirteenth amendment | constitutional amendment ratified in 1865 that freed all slaves throughout the United States | 7 | |
| 1149000620 | copperheads | a term republicans applied to northern war dissenters and those suspected of aiding the Confederate cause during the Civil War | 8 | |
| 1149000621 | fort sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | 9 | |
| 1149000622 | appomattox | Famous as the site of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse, where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865 | 10 | |
| 1149000623 | draft riots | Conscription Act in 1863 forced men between 20-45 years old to be eligible for conscription but one could avoid it if they paid 300 or got someone in their place; provoked anger from poor workers | 11 | |
| 1149000624 | ulysses s. 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. | 12 | |
| 1149000625 | robert e. lee | A former union general that joined the South after Virginia seceded. He was in charge of the Confederate Army, and led it to many victories. | 13 | |
| 1149000626 | william tecumseh sherman | Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war | 14 | |
| 1149000627 | 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 | 15 | |
| 1149000628 | clara barton | Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she treated the wounded in the field. | 16 |
