Heroes of the War
He was the 16th president and succeeded in keeping the country together.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
When everyone gets to give up a little of what they want, so everyone can be happy and agree on something together.
What is a compromise?
This part of the country had an agricultural economy That depended on the use of slaves on plantanions
What is the South
an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African-Americans, to escape to the free Northern States.
What was the Underground Railroad?
A vessel, new to warfare, that could submerge underwater and could shoot down enemy ships.
What is a submarine
This women fled from slavery and helped other escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad. Known as the conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
When people vote for a president and they win the presidency.
What is an election
This part of the country had an industrial economy that utilized factories and machinery.
What is the North?
A book about slavery with a character named Uncle Tom.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
A device for transmitting and receiving messages over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
His face is on the penny and the 20 dollar bill.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This allowed the States to decide for themselves if the wanted to be free states or slave states.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The battlefield with the most casualties, the turning point for the Union and the place where Lincoln gave his famous address
What is Gettysburg
This was the main issue for which the north and south disagreed upon, and ultimately led to civil war.
What is slavery?
A code consisting of dots and dashes that allows for secret messages to be passed.
What is Morse Code?
The most famous general for the Union who won Vicksburg, the “key to the Mississippi”, and went on to be our 18th president.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
When a two parts of a country go to war.
What is a civil war?
An important river that flows up the country and was used for transporting materials on river boats.
What is the Mississippi River?
The violence that broke out in the state of Kansas because people disagreed about slavery.
What was bleeding Kansas?
A box shaped machine invented by Eli Whitney that efficiently removed all the seeds from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
She was Abraham Lincoln’s wife
Who was Marry Todd Lincoln?
An compromise that allowed Missouri to become a state.
What was the Missouri compromise?
Runaway slaves had to escape to this country above the U.S. so that they couldn’t be caught again
What is Canada?
In the south they grew a lot of this on plantations and slaves had to pick it.
What is cotton
An aircraft that floats and could be used for spying on the enemy armies.
What is a hot air balloon?