Before the War
People
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Other Important Things
Definitions
100
A system of secret escape routes that led enslaved people to free lands.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This person is one of the most well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
100
The document President Lincoln signed which declared that all enslaved people in areas still fighting against the Union were free. (Enslaved people in the border states and in areas of the South controlled by the Union were not free.)
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Someone who escapes from the law.
What is a fugitive?
200

The election of this person caused states to begin to secede from the Union.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
He escaped from slavery and became a world-famous writer and speaker.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
200
The battle that was the turning point of the Civil War. The Confederates were never able to launch a major attack on the Union afterwards. It was a 3 day battle in Pennsylvania, and one of the bloodiest of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
The towns that General Sherman marched from and to during his March to the Sea.
What was Atlanta to Savannah?
200
A short speech.
What is an address?
300
Confederate Troops fired on this location on April 12, 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
He was the one and only president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
A battle in Virginia that was won by the Confederates. It gave the Confederacy confidence to try to invade the North again.
What is Chancellorsville?
300
The place where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
300
To free.
What is emancipate?
400

Stated that states below a certain line would be slave states, while states above the line would be free states. This was suggested by Henry Clay.

What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
She was a nurse during the Civil War, and known as the "Angel of the Battlefield."
Who is Clara Barton?
400
A battle fought in September 1862 in Maryland. It was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
The speech President Lincoln gave, where he spoke about the ideals of liberty and equality, and also honored the soldiers who had died.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
To leave.
What is secede?
500
The Supreme Court ruled that this man was not free after his owner died, even though he had lived in a free state.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
This person led a raid on a government storehouse in Harpers Ferry in 1859. The raid failed, and he was hanged for his actions.
Who was John Brown?
500

General Grant laid siege to this Mississippi town for two months. At the end, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River.

What is Vicksburg?
500
Five days after General Lee surrendered to General Grant, this man shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
A tax on imports.
What is a tariff?
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