Nicknames
The Moses of her People
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The deadliest one day battle in all US history.
What is Antietam?
The network of people offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South
What is the Underground Railroad?
The Great Exhibition was held in this country to show off man's contributions to society.
What is Great Britain?
The name of an Indian Soldier.
What is a sepoy?
The Lady of the Lamp
Who was Florence Nightingale?
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
A former slave who fled North for freedom and became a renowned abolitionist speaker and author.
Who was Fredrick Douglass?
The seven continents
What are Africa, Antartica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America?
The name of the first state to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina?
The Angel of the Battlefield
Who was Clara Barton?
The fort that refused to surrender and the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The act which was designed to please Southern slave holders passed as part of the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Manmade waterway that connects the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and finally to the Indian Ocean.
What is the Suez Canal?
This war that claimed 650,000 lives, took place between the Great Powers in Europe when Russia attempted to expand it's influence in the declining Ottoman Empire.
What was the Crimean War?
The "Sick Man of Europe"
What is the Ottoman Empire?
After Virginia seceded from the Union, this native Virginian knew he could never attack his home state. He resigned from the US Army and took leadership of the Confederate army.
Who is Robert E Lee?
This abolitionist worked with the Underground Railroad before he lead the raid in Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
The waterfall David Livingstone had the privilege of naming
What is Victoria Falls?
The President of the Confederate States of America
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The political and military duel between Britain and Russia over control of Afghanistan (and Persia).
What was The Great Game?
The names of the two first ironclad warships
What are the Merrimack (Confederate) and Monitor (Union)?
When his owner died, this individual decided to sue for his freedom, and his case went all the way to the Supreme Court. (but he lost)
Who is Dred Scott?
"A Sword cut through the mountains" was how Rudyard Kipling described this important trade route and strategic military location linking Central and South Asia.
What is the Khyber Pass
This freed "all persons held as slaves... within the rebellious states".
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?