This state was a slave state during the war. We also call it home!
What is Kentucky
100
Our 16th President of the United States during the Civil War.
What is Abraham Lincoln
100
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this Fort, an island in Charleston, South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter
100
Who supported the institution of slavery and saw it as part of their way of life?
What is the South
100
What were the years of the Civil War?
What is 1861-1865
200
This was a free state during the war and is located directly above Kentucky.
What is Ohio
200
One of the most famous "conductors" of the Underground Railroad and a former slave.
What is Harriet Tubman
200
The first bloodshed on the battlefield happened here. It was the first real battle of the war.
What is Bull Run
200
What was the name of Eli Whitney's invention?
What is Cotton Gin
200
The ______________________ gun was used the most during the first part of the war.
What is Musket
300
The __________________ Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress
What is Missouri
300
Author of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe
300
This was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with causalities totaling more than 26,000.
What is Antietam
300
This man sued for his freedom when his master took him to a free state.
What is Dred Scott
300
True of False?
Lincoln was assassinated or killed five days after the Civil War ended?
What is True
400
This state is where many of the battles of the Civil war occurred.
What is Virginia
400
The name of those people who opposed or were against slavery.
What is Abolistionists
400
The second largest Civil War battle in Kentucky, the Battle of ________________was one of the most decisive and complete Confederate victories in the entire war.
What is Richmond
400
The name given to the system of escape routes that runaway slaves used to travel North to freedom.
What is The Underground Railroad
400
True of False?
General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate army, surrendered to Union General, Ulysses S. Grant, at Appomattox court house on April 9, 1865?
What is True
500
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina
500
He was the "President" of the Confederate states of America, or Confederacy.
What is Jefferson Davis
500
Probably the most famous battle of the war for two reasons
1.) It was the turning point in the war for the North/Union
2.) Lincoln gave his famous address there after the battle
What is Gettysburg
500
This law of 1850 said that ALL citizens had to aid in the capture of runaway slaves or face a $1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail.