Slavery
One in 4 families in the south kept slaves; name this as a percentage and as a fraction.
What is 25% and 1/4 ?
The state where Abraham Lincoln was born.
What is Kentucky?
The first state to leave, or secede from the Union when Lincoln was elected President.
What is South Carolina?
Two kinds of distinctly American music that can trace their roots to enslaved African's music traditions.
What is Jazz and the Blues?
Lincoln's political party.
What are the Republicans?
The general from Illinois who became the leader of the Union army; he later went on to become a President of the United States.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The system that helped transport escaped slaves north to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Lincoln's most famous speech, given at a cemetery dedication in 1863.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
With this executive order Lincoln ended slavery in the states that were a part of the Confederacy, but not in the border states which had slavery but had not seceded from the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Most of the world's supply of this crop was grown in the southern United States at the time of the Civil War.
What is cotton?
The man whom Lincoln debated all over the state of Illinois during the Illinois U.S Senate race (in which he was the loser).
Who is Stephen Douglas (or Douglas)?
The Confederacy's top general.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This invention, by Eli Whitney, is believed to have made producing cotton so profitable it led to the growth of slavery.
What is the Cotton Gin?
What was Lincoln's profession after he was a storekeeper in New Salem and before he was a politician?
What is a lawyer?
The fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumpter?