Miscellaneous
North vs South
The Underground Railroad
Important Dates
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War Leaders
100
Treated like property, most were in the South but some were in the North.
Who are slaves?
100
Means to be owned by another person as a piece of property.
What is enslaved?
100
The Civil War started on this date because the South attacked Fort Sumpter.
What is April 12, 1861?
100
On this date Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
What is November 1860?
100
He was the leader of the Confederate army.
What is General Robert E. Lee?
200
These large farms of the south are known for growing tobacco, cotton, sugar, indigo, and rice.
What are plantations?
200
A person who worked to end slavery. Some were called conductors because of their work on the Underground Railroad.
What is an abolitionist?
200
This state was the first state to leave the union in December, 1860.
What is South Carolina?
200
This statement, given by Abraham Lincoln, said that all enslaved African Americans were free and could join the union forces.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
In 1874 President Lincoln put him in command of all Union troops and he went on to win the Civil War.
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Confederate soldiers were sometimes called this because they wore long gray coats.
What are graybacks?
300
In this act the government agreed to help find escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
On this date General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate Army surrendered to the Union.
What is April 9, 1865?
300
The name of the actor who shot President Lincoln.
What is John Wilkes Booth?
300
She was an abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that made many people want to end slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
Two famous quakers who lived in Newport, Indiana and who helped 12,000 African Americans excape to freedom.
Who are Levi and Catherine Coffin?
400
On this date Congress passed the thirteenth ammendment that outlawed slavery.
What is December 18, 1865?
400
This speech, lasting only 2 minutes, was given by President Lincoln to honor soldiers killed in the battle that shares its name.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
He was the president of the Confederate states.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
This battle was the turning point of the war when Union forces started to win the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
The exact number of enslaved African Americans is not known but this is an estimate of the number of slaves in the United States.
What is 40,000 to 100,000?
500
In this year Massachusettes became the first state to outlaw slavery.
What is 1780?
500
On this date President Lincoln was assacinated, only 5 days after Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant.
What is April 14, 1865?
500
He was Indiana's governor when the Civil War started and he was loyal to both President Lincoln and the Union.
Who is Oliver P Morton?
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