This battle lasted three days and was the turning point in the war. President Lincoln also gave a famous speech here.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
100
An organized, secret system to help enslaved people escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
Big farms where slaves usually worked.
What is plantations?
100
This Indian house was constructed wood poles, bark, and animal skins.
What are tepees?
100
People who had just settled in the West.
Who are pioneers?
200
The first shots of war were fired here. This fort is in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
A barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an area.
What is blockade?
200
States that did not prohibit slavery.
What are Confederate states?
200
In 1830, Congress passed this act. This act moved Native Americans to unsettled prairie lands.
What is Indian Removal Act?
200
A type of false or exaggerated reporting.
What is yellow journalism?
300
This was a three part strategy. The Union Soldiers wrapped around the Confederacy states like a snake.
What is Scott's Great Snake?
300
The bringing of charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives.
What is impeachment?
300
This person was a escaped slave who helped thousands of slaves.
What is Harriet Tubman?
300
Native Americans were forced to walk 800 miles to Indian territory. More than 4,000 natives died on this journey.
What is Trail of Tears?
300
This canal went from New York to San Fransisco. The journey was 12,000 miles long.
What is the Panama?
400
This was the single, bloodiest day in the war. After the battle, Lincoln made a decision that would change the war and the country.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
Someone who wanted to get rid of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
400
This person went to court because he said he should be free because he temporarily lived in two free states.
What is Dred Scott?
400
This Native American became the principal Sioux chief in 1867.
Who is Chief Sitting Bull?
400
In 1923, President James Monroe had warned European countries not to interfere with nations in the Western Hemisphere. This is known as the _________ __________.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
President Lincoln sent 35,000 troops to this stream. This was the battle where Thomas Jackson got his nickname "Stonewall".
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
500
A military blockade designed to make a city surrender.
What is a siege?
500
This person wrote "The Liberator". He was also an abolitionist.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
In this battle, U.S. soldiers attacked a group of Sioux warriors. The U.S. soldiers killed 150 of them.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
500
This country offered to sell it territory of Alaska to the U.S. for 7.2 million dollars in 1866.