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The Union's Yankee general
Who is Grant?
This lady didn't lie and spoke out against slavery.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This side had more people, greater resources and better transportation.
What is the North?
In 1861, Stonewall Jackson led the Southern army to victory.
What is the first Battle of Bull Run?
This is the place where Lee surrendered in 1865.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
That bearded rebel general.
Who is Lee?
Abolitionist author and the book she wrote.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The dirty south couldn't survive without this terrible practice.
What is slavery?
In 1864, General Sherman destroyed Atlanta's warehouses and everything else on his way to the sea.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Carpet baggers were common during this period when the federal government began to rebuild the South.
What is Reconstruction?
16th President of the US elected in 1860 and assassinated in 1865?
Who is Lincoln?
A former slave who shared his experiences in the narrative of his life.
This is the practice of allowing the state's to make their own decisions about slavery.
What is state's rights?
In 1862, the Union's victory over the South at this place resulted in the deadliest single day battle in American history.
What is Antietam?
Harriet Tubman was a famous conductor in this series of safe routes, houses, and people that helped runaway slaves reach freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The only president the south ever had!
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A heroic man who attacked an army post to start a slave rebellion and was later hanged.
The word for the southern states' act of breaking away from the Union.
What is secession?
This 1863 battle was the turning point of the war where the Union defeated the Confederacy.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
A famous 1863 document that stated all slaves in the Confederate States were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He's a union general who marched to the sea and burned everything along the way!
Who is General Sherman?
He founded the Liberator newspaper calling for the end of slavery.
Who is William Garrison?
These taxes were placed on imports that the South really needed.
What is tariffs?
The Confederates defeated the Union with fewer soldiers in this 1862 Battle.
What is the 2nd Battle of Bull Run?
This 1865 Constitutional amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?