Vocab
What are large farms in the South?
plantations
Why did the South want to keep slavery?
They needed slaves to work the plantations and help their economy...money!
What were the Northern states called during the war?
The Union
Who was elected in 1860, that really angered the South because they were worried he would try to end slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was a famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, after she herself escaped from slavery.
Harriet Tubman
Name the world's biggest island.
Greenland
What is a building where weapons are kept?
armory
What was the law that forced the Northerners not to help runaway slaves, and had to return them to the slave owners in the South?
Fugitive Slave Act
What were the two causes of the Civil War?
states rights and slavery
What were the states called that were anti-secession, but had slavery.
border states
Who was the man who's house on top of a hill in Ohio overlooking the Ohio River. He helped enslaved people escape to freedom. He was known for putting a light in his window to signal to runaways that his house was a safe house.
John Rankin
Where in the world would you find the Sea of Tranquility?
the moon
What is a person who breaks a law and runs away from a place or hides?
fugitive
What was the document that freed all slaves in the South during the Civil War that President Lincoln made?
Emancipation Proclamation
Where was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
What was the only 'battle' fought on Ohio soil?
Morgan's Raid, Battle of Buffington Island
Who was the woman who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that showed the horrors of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Name the largest freshwater lake in the world? (It's one of the great lakes)
Lake Superior
What is to put an end to something?
abolish
Who was a former slave who bought his freedom and helped runaway slaves cross the river. He lived in Ripley, Ohio and owned his own blacksmith company.
John Parker
What were the Southern states called during the war?
Confederacy
What year did the Civil War end?
1865
Who was a Quaker from Mount Pleasant that started the first group of abolitionists to fight west of the Appalachian Mountains and is known as the 'Father of Abolitionism."
Benjamin Lundy
What kind of weapon is a falchion?
a sword
What is to leave or break away from something?
secede
Who was known as the 'president of the Underground Railroad' for his work helping thousands of fugitives? He and his wife were Quakers.
What were advantages of the North and South in the Civil War?
South- military colleges, superior military leaders
North- resources, railroad tracks, more soldiers
Where did the Civil War end? (Where was the final treaty of surrender signed?)
Appomattox Court House, Virigina
Who was a man that believed African Americans should receive equal treatment under all laws, and became on of the first members of a new political party, the Liberty Party, to work on just that. He lived in Alabama, but moved to Cincinnati and started a newspaper that published anti-slavery articles.
James Birney
Which chess piece can only move diagonally?
a bishop