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The man who killed the president.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
A VERY hesitant general, who was fired by Abraham Lincoln.
Who the heck is George B. McClellan?
A popular crop, grown on plantations.
What is cotton?
A woman who was a freed slave herself, and was called “Moses” by other slaves.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The battle that began the civil war.
What is the battle of Bull Run?
The first president to be impeached.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
General Grant’s nickname.
What is Unconditional Surrender Grant?
Raised in a small, one room cabin, was poorly educated, lived on the countryside, and grew up to do great things.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A man who wasn’t necessarily an abolitionist, but fought to end slavery, as the president.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The strategy used by the Union for war.
What is anaconda?
The name the Confederates called the Union army.
What is Billy Yank?
General Jackson’s nickname.
What is Stonewall Jackson?
A general who led the Union to victory over the Confederacy. He was later elected as the 18th president.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant, otherwise known as Unconditional Surrender Grant.
An escaped slave who owned a newspaper.
Who was Fredrick Douglass?
The first battle the anaconda strategy was used in. During this battle, Confederate general Albert Sydney Johnston was killed.
What is the battle of Shiloh?
The name the Union called the Confederate army.
What is Johnny Reb.?
As a young boy, this was Lincoln’s nickname.
What is Honest Abe?
The amount of time it took a slave to clean a pound of cotton in a day.
What is a trick question! It took a slave a full day to clean a single pound of cotton.
A secret society who helped slaves escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The last battle of the civil war.
The 13th amendment.
What is abolished slavery?
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
The amount of cotton that could be cleaned in a day with the cotton gin.
What is 50 pounds?
A man who owned the newspaper known as the Liberator.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
The battle that led to the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the battle of Antietam?