The Emancipation Proclamation
The day African Americans this day as the day they earned their freedom.
What is Juneteenth?
The amount of African American men who had served as soldiers in the Union army.
Who are 179,000 African Americans?
(A Soldier's Life) These are biscuits made of flour-and-water.
What are hardtacks?
(On the Home Front) This was the average family food bill in the south is 1863.
What is $68 dollars?
These are ways people got news from the battlefield.
What are letters and newspapers?
This war didn't start as a war to end slavery.
What is the U.S. Civil War?
Jobs that African Americans served as.
What are carpenters, cooks, guards, workers, nurses, scouts, spies, and doctors?
(Caring for the Soldiers) This person was the most famous of the volunteer nurses.
Who is Clara Barton?
(Women in Wartime) This woman disguised herself as a man so she could fight in the Union Army.
Who is Frances Clalin?
What are photographs and letters?
These are the states that stayed loyal to the Union.
What were Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia?
The amount of Native Americans that served in either the Confederate or Union armies.
Who are 20,00 Native Americans?
(A Soldiers Life) The Union blockade kept supplies from reaching the southerners.
Why could soldiers not replace worn out shoes?
(Women in Wartime) This woman, who was an African American former slave, had gathered supplies and told stories of her life as a slave.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This are the things that appeared in newspapers and special exhibits.
What are Matthew Brady's photos?
On June, 19th 1865, this man read to the people of Galveston, "The people of Texas are informed that. . . all slaves are free."
Who is General Gordon Granger?
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
(Caring for the Soldiers) This was founded after the war in 1881
What is the American Red Cross?
(Women in Wartime) This person was one of the most famous female confederate spies.
Who is Bella Boyd?
A new technology that made seeing what the lives of soldiers were like.
What is photography?
This person's Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in states at war with the union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The most famous African American scout.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
(Caring for the Soldiers) This person sold all her property and gave the money to the Confederacy to establish hospitals, as well as organized medical services in Richmond, Virginia.
Who is Juliet Opie Hopkins?
(Women in Wartime) This is Bella Boyd's nickname.
Who is "La Belle Rebelle"?
Photographs were taken on these.
What are glass plates?