Harriet Tubman
The Battle of Shiloh
Drummer Boys
Vocabulary
Bonus
100

Harriet Tubman worked with this abolitionist group to free slaves

What is the underground railroad?

100

The Battle of Shiloh got it's name from this building

What is a church

100

The age of Johnny Shiloh when he became a sergeant

What is thirteen?

100

People fleeing from danger

What are fugitives?

100

The first story that we read this year

What is The Landlady?

200

Harriet Tubman freed this number of slaves in the story

What is eleven?

200

The total number of Union soldiers who fought at Shiloh

What is 55-65,000 soldiers?

200

The name of the drummer boy in the fictional story we read in class

Who is Joby?

200

Ability to write or speak gracefully and convincingly

What is eloquence?

200

This Baltimore writer is most famous for his scary stories

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

300

This could be considered Tubman's catch phrase

What is "Go on or die?"

300

The number of soldiers who fought for the Confederate army

What is 30-40,000 soldiers?

300

Caring for horses, burying the dead, helping the wounded, cutting hair, sending battlefield messages, and providing a beat for marching drills.

What are the drummer boy duties?

300

Motivation

What is incentive?

300

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks..." is a line from this famous play

What is Romeo and Juliet?

400

Tubman's biblical nickname

What is Moses

400

The Union general at the Battle of Shiloh, also known by this unflattering nickname.

Who is Ulysses S. Grant, or the Butcher?

400

The last war that used drummers in the military

What is the Civil War?

400

Impossible to understand

What is incomprehensible? 

400

This Latin phrase means "great work" and refers to the largest and best achievement of an author 

What is magnum opus?

500

The state where the story starts

What is Maryland?

500

The type of trees in the orchard surrounding the battlefield at Shiloh

What are peach trees?

500

The author of The Drummer Boy of Shiloh

Who is Ray Bradbury?

500

Scatter; drive away

Dispel

500

The longest word in the English language

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