Chapter 1
What continent we people taken from and sent to North America to become slaves?
Africa
What was a network of houses, farmsteads, churches, and Quaker meetinghouses, or stations, where escaping slaves would be safe called?
The Underground Railroad
Another name for the United States during the civil war era was _______________________.
The Union
What fort was attacked in April 1861 that marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
What were the soldiers of the Confederate Army called, they wore gray?
Rebels
What is the power to make your own decisions and to do what you want?
Freedom
What were the people who were against slavery and wanted to abolish or get rid of slavery called?
Abolitionists
_________________ means talking about and expressing different opinions or points of view about something.
Debating
The leader of an army is called a __________________.
general
What were the soldiers of the Union army called, they wore blue
Yankees
What is a system in which people are legally owned by another and forced to work, often without pay called?
slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a _______________________ known for “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
writer
What is it called when there is a war between groups in the same country like the war between The United States and the Confederate States of America?
Civil War
What is the act of entering a place by force, for example, by fighting and attacking?
Invasion
Most enslaved Africans worked on large farms in the South called....
plantations
Who was the woman who helped slaves escape to the North or Canada using the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the Confederate army commanded by?
Robert E. Lee
A free state means slavery is
not allowed
What were people who received a reward or were paid to find slaves who had run away and return them to their owners called?
Slave catchers
What were the 7 Southern States called during the Civil War when they broke away from the United States when Abraham Lincoln became president?
The Confederate States of America
The __________________ ______________________was a document signed by Abraham Lincoln that said the slaves in the Confederacy were now free.
Emancipation Proclamation