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Geography
Battles
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100
She helped over 300 slaves escape on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This system allowed for African people to be kept as property.
What is slavery?
100
These states allowed slavery.
What are slave states?
100
The first battle of the Civil War was here.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
The Civil War began in this year.
What is 1861?
200
He signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This book was written by Harriett Beecher Stowe and described the cruelty of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
These states did not allow slavery.
What are free states?
200
This town in Pennsylvania hosted a three day battle that was considered the bloodiest battle of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
200
The Civil War ended in this year.
What is 1865?
300
She founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton
300
These taxes were placed on imported goods.
What is tariffs?
300
The country created by the southern states who left the Union during the Civil War.
What is the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy?
300
23,000 were killed or wounded in one day during this battle in Maryland.
What is Antietam?
300
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in this year.
What is 1860?
400
He was a former slave turned abolitionist, author and speaker.
Who is Frederick Douglass
400
This idea is that Southerners believed that states should choose whether to obey a law made by the federal government.
What is States Rights?
400
These states allowed slavery but remained in the Union during the Civil War.
What are Border States?
400
During this general's attack, the Union army burned everything in it's path to cut off supplies to the Confederate Army and capture Atlanta.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
400
The Fugitive Slave Law that forced captured slaves to be returned to their owners was passed in this year.
What is 1850?
500
This general led the Union troops and eventually became president of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
500
This document signed by Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the Southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
Slaves needed to make to this country in order to be truly free.
What is Canada?
500
Lee surrendered to Grant in this town.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
The Supreme Court made the Dred Scott decision in this year which made slavery legal in all U.S. territories.
What is 1857?
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