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| 5727184181 | Fort Sumter | one of the few Union forts located in the South; where the first shots of the Civil War were fired (in SC, 1861) | 0 | |
| 5727184182 | Border States | slave states that supported the Union in the Civil War (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia; crucial because of their large populations and manufacturing capacities) | 1 | |
| 5727184183 | West Virginia | mountainous area of Virginia that separated to join the Union when Virginia claimed loyalty to the Confederacy | 2 | |
| 5727184184 | Trent Affair | quarrel between Britain and the Union when a Union warship stopped the /Trent/, a British mail steamer, and captured Confederate diplomats on their way to Europe | 3 | |
| 5727184185 | Alabama | British-built and manned Confederate warship that raided Union shipping during the Civil War (one of many built by Britain to help the Confederacy) | 4 | |
| 5727184186 | Laird rams | unreleased British warships with iron rams and large-caliber guns created to devastate the wooden ships of the Union navy for the Confederacy (if had been released would have resulted in a war with Britain and possible overtake of Canada) | 5 | |
| 5727184187 | Dominion of Canada | unified Canadian government established by Britain (created to protect Canada from further invasion from the U.S. out of anger towards Britain) | 6 | |
| 5727184188 | writ of habeas corpus | petition requiring law enforcement to present those they arrest before a court that decides whether or not the arrest is for legitimate reasons (it was suspended by Lincoln during the Civil War so that anti-Unionists could be arrested swiftly) | 7 | |
| 5727184189 | New York draft riots | uprising, mostly of working-class, antiblack Irish Americans, in protest of the Union draft (cause: the wealthy could hire substitute or buy exemption; racism. effect: resulted in the loss of lives, particularly African-Americans, and federal intervention) | 8 | |
| 5727184190 | Morrill Tarriff Act | Increased duties (taxes on imported goods) by anywhere from 5-10% to raise revenue for the Civil War | 9 | |
| 5727184191 | greenbacks | paper currency issued by the Union Treasury during the Civil War (fluctuated in value throughout the war due to inflation) | 10 | |
| 5727184192 | National Banking System | network of member banks that could issue legitimate U.S. currency (created during the Civil War to establish a stable national currency and encourage the sale of war bonds | 11 | |
| 5727184193 | Homestead Act | (1862, during Civil War) federal law that sold settlers 160 acres of land for about $30 if they lived on it for five years and improved its value by some means | 12 | |
| 5727184194 | U.S. Sanitary Commission | trained nurses, collected medical supplies, and equipped hospitals in effort to help the Union army | 13 | |
| 5727184195 | Charles Francis Adams | diplomat to Britain during the Civil War; set the ultimatum that stopped Britain from delivering the Laird rams to the Confederacy and therefore kept us out of a war with Britain | 14 | |
| 5727184196 | Napoleon III | the Emperor of France during the Civil War period; took advantage of America's preoccupation with the war; sent French army to occupy Mexico City (against Monroe doctrine policies; U.S. threatens to punish) | 15 | |
| 5727184197 | Maximilian | an Austrian archduke (puppet of Napoleon) chosen by Napoleon to be emperor of Mexico when the republic fell (against Monroe doctrine policies; U.S. threatens to punish) | 16 | |
| 5727184198 | Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy; was stubborn, tense, and humorless; largely opposed popular opinion: wanted a well-knit central government more than strong state's rights | 17 | |
| 5727184199 | Elizabeth Blackwell | America's first female physician; helped organize the U.S. Sanitary Commission | 18 | |
| 5727184200 | Clara Barton | a superintendent nurse of the Union (along with the help of Dorothea Dix, helped transform nursing from a lowly service into a respected profession; would later found the American Red Cross in 1881) | 19 | |
| 5727184201 | Sally Tompkins | ran a Richmond infirmary for wounded Confederate soldiers; was awarded the rank of a captain by Confederate president Jefferson Davis | 20 |
