A person who advocated or supported the abolishment of slavery
What is an abolishonist
100
Who's nickname was "moses" because of the number of people she led to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
100
When the South Succeeded they formed their own "nation" and called themselves the .....
The confederacy
100
Many abolitionists helped runaway slaves escape on this. It got it's name when Tice Davids seemed to "disappear" after crossing the Ohio river.
The Underground Railroad
100
Another name for th Big Dipper, used as a code for escaping slaves.
Follow the "Drinking Gourd"
200
To free from an-others control
* like in this proclimation
Emancipation
200
American orator, writer, abolitionist, and former slave, this man was also the writer of the famous newspaper The North Star. ( He was also there to help a friend out of a box in Philadelphia)
Frederick Douglas
200
Located in the harbor of Charleston, S.C. Held by Union Forces. Captured by the Confederates. Started the Civil War The first battle in the civil war where strangely no one was killed.
Fort Sumter
200
This man was so desperate to reach freedom that he mailed himself in a small box to Philadelphia.
Henry "Box" Brown
200
Worst and most bloody three day battle of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
300
What is a casualty?
A person killed or seriously injured (usually at war)
300
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The general for the Union during the American Civil War who later became president of the United States.
300
This man stressed states rights to secede from the Union. He was president of the confederacy during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
300
This was a person who helped runaway slaves escape on the Underground Railroad.
A Conductor
300
This journal/ newspaper by William Lyod Garrison faced harsh resistance for it's abolitionist views. It ran until the 13th amendment was passed that abolished slavery throughout the United States.
The Liberator
400
A person who watches at a show, even, etc.
What is a spectator
400
"Uncle Toms Cabin" a worldwide bestseller depicting the evils of slavery, succeeding in starting an anti-slavery movement across the nation. So much so that Abraham Lincoln remarked when he met her "So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Who was the Author?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
400
This compromise admitted California as a free state and separately organized the territories of Utah and New Mexico without restrictions on slavery.
Missouri Compromise of 1850
400
A law that made helping the runaway slaves escape a crime. Those convicted could be fined or imprisoned and the runaway slave could be forced to return to the master in the South.
The Fugitive Slave Law
400
A law that helped free the slaves, issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862. It declared that all slaves in the Confederate States would be free.
The Emancipation Proclimation
500
What is the basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, an important working system.
An Infrastructure
500
This person led the rebellion against slavery. Though the rebellion failed it made a huge impact in the fight against slavery.
Nat Turner
500
This man believed the future of the Union was at stake when the south seceded and had to act because, " A house divided against itself cannot stand"
Abraham Lincoln
500
Crossing this river to John Rankins house was essential to getting to the free states.
The Ohio River
500
This is one of the best known speeches in American History. So much so that Charles Sumner claimed it was more important than the battle it was written after.