Important People, USA

Abraham Lincoln
Hannibal Hamlin
Andrew Johnson
Winfield Scott
George McClellan
John Pope
Ambrose Burnside
Joseph Hooker
David Farragut
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
 

Important People, CSA

Jefferson Davis
Joseph Johnston
Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard
Barnard Elliot Bee
Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson
Albert Sidney Johnston (no relation)
Robert E. Lee
J.E.B. Stuart
Braxton Bragg
John Bell Hood
Nathan Bedford Forrest
 

Other People

Frederick Douglass
Clara Barton
John Wilkes Booth
 

Important Places

Richmond
Manassas
Bull Run
The Peninsula
Yorktown
Sharpsburg
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Marye’s Heights
Chancellorsville
Bloody Lane
Gettysburg
Little Round Top
The Wilderness
Spotsylvania
Cold Harbor
Petersburg
Appomattox Courthouse
Fort Henry
Fort Donelson
Shiloh
The Hornets’ Nest
New Orleans
Vicksburg
Atlanta
Andersonville
Savannah
 

Important Things and Concepts

Railroads
Ironclads
Copperheads
Contraband
Emancipation
Names of armies
The draft
Hiring substitutes
Income taxes
Black soldiers
Sherman’s March
The assassination of Lincoln
The Red Cross
The Sanitary Commission

Possible Essay Topics

The Anaconda Plan
The Emancipation Proclamation
The turning point of the War
Why the War was fought
The election of 1864
Technology’s effect on the War
Advantages of both sides
Strategies of both sides

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