What woman was a famous conductor on the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
100
What was the name of the organization that helped slaves from the South escape to the North?
Underground Railroad
100
What is the name of the 3 day battle in which over 50,000 soldiers and civilians were killed?
Battle of Gettysburg
100
What was the official name of the northern army in the Civil War?
the Union
100
What is the name of the main transportation up and down the Mississippi River in the 1860s?
steamboats
200
Who was elected president in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
200
What color were the Union uniforms?
Blue
200
What is the name of the first major battle of the Civil War which the Union lost? (Hint: it was the name of a small creek)
Battle of Bull Run
200
What was the official name of the southern army in the Civil War?
the Confederates
200
What was the name of the book that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote against slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
Who was an escaped slave and became a famous abolitionist and was a friend of Emily and Ralph Grey's?
Frederick Douglass
300
What color were the Confederate uniforms?
Gray
300
What is the name of Abraham Lincoln's decision that all the slaves would be free as of January 1, 1863?
Emancipation Proclamation
300
Who was the main Union general the last 3 years of the Civil War who was elected president a few years after the war?
Ulysses S. Grant
400
What Minnesotan lied about his age to join the Union army at age 15?
Charley Goddard
400
What number president was Abraham Lincoln?
sixteenth (16th)
400
What is the name of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War that lasted only one day?
Battle of Antietam
400
What is the name for someone who is against slavery?
abolitionist
400
Who was the most important Confederate general of the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
500
Who was brought as a slave from Mississippi to MN and won her freedom with the help of the Greys?
Eliza Winston
500
What was the name of the regiment that saved the day at the Battle of Gettysburg?
First MN Infantry Regiment or First MN Regiment
500
What is the name of the battle that lasted 6 weeks and the civilians living in the town the battle's named after ended up eating rats and boiled shoes?
Siege of Vicksburg
500
What do we call withdrawing from the Union (e.g. like the southern states did)?
to secede
500
Who was president of the Confederate States of America?