This abolitionist led a raid at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in hopes of encouraging a slave revolt.
Who is John Brown?
100
This area in West Tennessee was a farm owned by a slaveholding wealthy planter who wanted his state to remain loyal to the Union.
What is Hurst Nation?
100
After the Union’s win at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland, President Abraham Lincoln made his Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves here.
What is the Confederacy?
100
This is who Abraham Lincoln chose to run as his Vice President in the Election of 1864.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
This organization was formed to help former slaves find jobs and schools during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
This abolitionist wrote a novel called Uncles Tom’s Cabin, after she visited a slave state and witnessed a slave auction.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
This area in East TN voted to secede from the state of TN because they wanted to stay in the Union.
What is Free and Independent State of Scott?
200
These two battles are considered a turning point for the North in the Civil War.
What is Vicksburg and Gettysburg?
200
This is where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox, VA?
200
This Amendment was passed in December of 1865 that made slavery illegal in all states and therefore freed all of the slaves.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Who would be most likely to disagree with the opinions and ideals of Frederick Douglass?
What is a plantation owner/slave owner/Confederate, etc.
300
When the Union won at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, it gave the Union control of these two rivers.
What is the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers?
300
President Abraham Lincoln gave this famous two-minute speech to dedicate a cemetery to the soldiers who had fought and died at the worst battle in our nation’s history, and to encourage Americans to keep fighting until the war was won so those fallen soldiers would not have died in vain.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
This is the man who killed President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
300
Reconstruction officially ended when this man was elected president in 1876 because of a deal he made.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
400
Which presidential election most showed the division of the American people because of their political differences?
What is the Election of 1860?
400
This man from Tennessee wrote a memoir called “Co. Aytch” that told about his time serving in the Confederate Army.
Who is Sam Watkins?
400
This battle occurred in TN at a church.
What is Shiloh?
400
This amendment made freed slaves citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
This was a challenge the South faced before and after the war. (There are many correct answers)
What is shortages of food, clothes, blankets, medicine, etc., or inflation?
500
An example of this was that southern belles were loud and dramatic.
What is a myth?
500
This is why the majority of Tennessee voters choose to remain with the United States in February 1861, but then agreed to join the Confederacy a few months later.
What is the Confederacy win at Fort Sumter?
500
This is the only battle where civilians went to watch.
What is First Battle of Bull Run?
500
This amendment gave freed black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
This was the first African American elected as an American Senator.