Slavery
These six states had the largest slave populations in 1860.
What are Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama?
This man was made the head of the Army of Northern Virginia, and became the most beloved general, possibly in all American history.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue.
Who is Columbus?
The bones that protect your lungs, heart, and other centrally located vital organs are called this.
What is the ribcage?
Some of the covert ways slaves would rebel would be breaking their tools, pretending to be sick, or even destroying these.
What are their owners' crops?
Because of his rather stony face and refusal to cry as a child, James Longstreet's father gave him this nickname.
What is Old Pete / Peter?
This Pennsylvania Signer of the Declaration, and supposed inventor of Bifocals, often complained of gout, a painful affliction of the toes and feet, and often paid prisoners from the local jail to carry him around the city of Philadelphia.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Stress affects all creatures negatively, and many have negative coping behaviors, such as sucking in air while biting a piece of wood, like a fence, also known as this.
What is cribbing?
Another covert way the Slaves rebelled against their masters was by making up these, often to make fun of their white owners.
What are coded songs?
This Confederate General from the Shenandoah Valley told a retreating General after complaining of running out of bullets, "Well sir, you must show them the bayonet", just shortly before having his right hand shot.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
In 1933, this man was elected to Chancellor of Germany, beginning the dictatorial and vicious rule by the National Socialist German Workers' Party?
Who is Adolf Hitler?
These create the Auroras near the top and bottom of the Earth, dazzling tourists and locals with their brilliant waves of green and red.
What are solar winds?
Nat Turner led the only successful this in the 400 years of North American slavery, having killed over 60 people.
What is a slave rebellion?
Because of his success in capturing Vicksburg in Mississippi and Chattanooga in Tennessee, President Lincoln choose this man to take over the whole US Army.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
In July of 1947, the people of this desert town in New Mexico became involved in one of the biggest mysteries of the 20th century, even though it all turned out to be a spy balloon we did not want the Russians to know we had. Sorry X-Files fans!
What is Roswell?
An atom appears to be made up of 3 subatomic particles: Protons, which are Positive, these are Neutral, and Electrons, which are Negative.
What are Neutrons?
While slaves may have different masters, jobs, positions, and lives, they were all exposed to this, making the evil practice of slavery all the more abhorrent.
What is violence/trauma/cruelty?
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A friend of Robert Lee, they attended West Point together, served in the Mexican-American War, and often thought highly of Lee, its no surprise this President of the Confederacy choose Lee to take over the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The legend that George Washington's false teeth were wood is false. His false teeth were actually made from his own teeth that had fallen out, as well as a cow's tooth, horse's tooth, and the tooth of this large grey creature that loves the water.
What are hippos?
This famous German scientist with wild, frizzy hair became famous for his General Theory of Relativity, equations on black holes, and the Equation E=MC2?
Who is Albert Einstein?