A village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant

A speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of the Union soldiers who had died trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded

A war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country

An order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring people enslaved in the Confederate states to be free

Another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union