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Mixed Bag
100

He was president during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

100

The Confederate States of America were located in what part of the United States

The south

100

The path that enslaved people took to get to freedom. 

The Underground Railroad

100

The name for the Northern Army

The Union

100
The name of the organization founded by Clara Barton that helps people in need.

The American Red Cross

200

She escaped slavery on the Underground Railroad and went back many times to save others.

Harriet Tubman

200

The war started when the Confederates took over what fort in South Carolina?

Fort Sumter

200

It happened on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the war.

200

A large farm in the south the used enslaved people to grow the crops

Plantation

200

People who helped "move" escaped slaves along the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was one.

Conductors

300

He was the general for the Confederate army, but President Lincoln wanted him to lead the Union.

Robert E. Lee

300

The Northern states became known as what?

The Union

300

Who was elected president in 1860, causing the Southern states to secede.

Abraham Lincoln

300

The act of forcing people to work for no pay and without choices or freedoms

Slavery

300
The nickname for the Confederate army

The Rebels

400

She was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" because she helped wounded soldiers during the war.

Clara Barton

400

The imaginary line between the North and the South

The Mason Dixon Line

400

One of the longest and worst battles of the war. It happened in Pennsylvania and General Lee lost to the Union.

The Battle of Gettysburg

400

A person who was against slavery and wanted it to be illegal.

Abolitionist

400

The Northern lady who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" about the life of a slave in the South. It made many northerners want to see an end to slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

500

He became the general of the Union army and the 18th president of the United States.

Ulysses S. Grant

500

The southern state that Robert E. Lee was from.

Virginia

500

The Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud on September 22, 1862. What did it state?

The enslaved people in the southern states were freed

500

The act of leaving or deciding not to be a part of something. The Southern states made the decision to "leave" the United States

secede

500

Which side's economy depended on agriculture, or farming and selling crops?

The south

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