A series of secret routes leading to the the North or Canada to freedom for escaping slaves.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This issue divided the nation. The north was industrialized with factories and businesses and did not need unlike the agricultural south.
What is slavery?
100
This battle was the first major battle taking place in Northern Virginia by a stream in Manassass. It was a Confederate victory.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
100
This person was the president of the United States in 1860. His goal was to end slavery but ended up trying to put the country back together when the South seceded from the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
People who thought slavery was wrong and tried to do something about it to end it.
What are abolitionisists?
200
This most famous conductor risked her life 19 times returning to the South to help slaves escaped on the Underground Railroad. She saved over 300 slaves.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, 11 states in the South did this.
What is secede from the Union?
200
This was another major battle taking place in Virginia along the Potomac River. Robert E. Lee was the commanding officer of the Army of Northern Virginia defeating the Union troops there.
What is the Battle of Fredericksburg?
200
He was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
Most of this group in Virginia supported the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What are white Virginians?
300
This person was elected president of the United States in 1860 speaking out against slavery and wanting to end it.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
During the Civil War in 1863, the eastern and western counties of Virginia disagreed over slavery. The eastern section needed and the western section didn't. This led to the formation of another free state.
What is West Virginia?
300
This battle took place along the coast during a navy Union blockade. It took place between two iron clad ships resulting in a draw.
What is the battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor?
300
This commanding officer was over all the Confederate armies. Lincoln had hoped he would command the union forces but he resigned not going his homeland and family.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
This group in Virginia was neutral and did not take sides during the Civil War.
What are American Indians?
400
This abolitionist led a slave revolt against plantation owners in Virginia. Plantation owners feared for their lives.
Who is Nat Turner?
400
The northern states wanted the new states of the western part of United States to become these when entering the union for the very first time.
What is a free state?
400
This battle between iron clad ships took place off the coast from these two cities in Virginia.
What are Norfolk and Hampton?
400
This commanding officer was a military professor at VMI and led the troops at the Battle of Bull Run. He defeated the Union Army and earned his nickname here.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
400
The Confederacy relied on this group to raise crops and provide labor for the army. Many fled to the Union army as it approached by supporting the Confederacy.
What are enslaved African Americans?
500
This abolitionist lead a raid on the United States Armory (Arsenal) at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was trying to start a slave rebellion. He was later captured and hung.
Who is John Brown?
500
This battle began the Civil War when the North would not relinquish it hold over this place in the South when South Carolina seceded from the Union. The south bombed it starting the war on April 12, 1861.
What is Ft. Sumter?
500
The end of the Civil War took place here in Virginia when Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
He commanded all the armies in the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
This group felt their limited rights could best be protected by supporting the Confederacy.