This is when someone is forced to work against their will with no pay.
What is slavery?
100
Which state played an important part in the underground railroad system?
What is Michigan?
100
How did the Civil War begin?
When the South attacked Frot sumter.
100
In the term Underground Railroad, the word underground means what?
Hidden from view
200
How did California become a state?
What is the Compromise of 1850.
200
What did Lincoln do when he wrote the Emancipation Proclomation?
He freed slaved people from the confederacy.
200
How did Michiganians help the war effort?
Women took care of family farms.
200
What were fugitives from the south fleeing from?
What is slavery?
300
What is a plantation?
What is a large farm that grew cotton and tobacco?
300
If something is illegal it is what?
It is against the law.
300
What was the name of President Lincoln's famous speech about slavery?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The south seceded from the union. What does seceded mean?
What is to leave the union?
400
Who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
What did abolitionists believe in?
What is ending slavery?
400
Abraham Lincoln was our __________ President.
What is the 16th?
400
This woman and her husband started the Raisin Institute to educate escaped slaves.
Who is Laura Haviland?
500
What were the two causes of the Civil War?
Slavery divided the North and the South.
When Lincoln was elected President, southerns feared he would end slavery so they left the union.
This lead to the Civil War.
500
Which state was the largest slave state?
What is Virginia?
500
How do you think Southerns felt about Michigan's Personal Liberty Law?
They were angry because it made it more difficult to get escaped slaves back.