Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
Slavery in America
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Vocabulary
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1860
What is the year Abraham Lincoln won his first presidential election?
100
1865
What is the year the Civil War ended?
100
1619
What is the year in which the first Indentured Servants were brought as captives from Africa to the colony in what would become Virginia?
100
A war between people of the same nation
What is a civil war?
100
adj. Rising in active revolt. n. A rebel or revolutionary.
What is the definition of Insurgent?
200
1863
What is the year in which Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and gave his Gettysburg Address?
200
1861
What is the year the Civil War began?
200
1640
What is the date on which slavery first became legalized in the American colonies?
200
This is the ceremony during which a president is inducted to office.
What is an inauguration?
200
adj. Having or displaying a passionate intensity.
What is the definition of Fervent?
300
Hodgenville, Kentucky
What is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln?
300
620,000
What is the approximate number of deaths that occurred as a result of the Civil War?
300
The Emancipation Proclamation
What is the document that Abraham Lincoln wrote and signed into law in 1863 that abolished slavery and freed all slaves?
300
Frederick Douglass
Who is an American slave who escaped to freedom by learning to read and write?
300
n. The intention or desire to do evil; ill will.
What is the definition of Malice?
400
John Wilkes Booth
Who is the person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
400
Seven
What is the number of states which seceded from the Union, beginning the Civil War?
400
4,000,000
What is the approximate total number of slaves in America prior to the abolition of slavery?
400
2400 miles
What is the approximate length of the Mississippi river?
400
n. The protective nature of a spiritual being (e.g., God, Allah, Buddha).
What is the definition of Providence?
500
To reunite the nation.
What was Abraham Lincoln's primary goal as president?
500
General Robert E. Lee
Who is the person from the Confederate army who surrendered to end the Civil War?
500
The 13th Amendment
What is the constitutional amendment that legally abolished slavery?
500
A Central Idea
What is the lesson, message, moral, or truth in a text?
500
adj. Forming a necessary base or core. n. A central or primary rule or principle on which something is based.
What is the definition of Fundamental?
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