Maine Slavery and Civil war

Vocab

100

A female role model, or hero

heroine

200

Secede

To withdraw from an organization

300

The group of southern states that declared themselves independent from the Union

Confederacy

400

A movement to make alcohol illegal, except for medicinal uses

Prohibition

500

Believed in freeing the slaves immediately

Abolitionist

Places

100

Brewer

Where Joshua Chamberlain was from

200

Where Hannible Hamlin was from

Paris Hill

300

Where Sarah Smith Sampson was from  and where the Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum for children was established

Bath

400

First Black church built

Portland

500

Where Men came from to make up the 20th of Maine’s Regiment

From Aroostook County to York County

People

100

Reuben Ruby

A Portland business man who helped finance the Abyssinian Church

200

Led the 20th Maine Regiment in the bayonet charge at Little Round Top.

Joshua Chamberlain

300

Known as “the father of the Republican Party” he switched political parties in order to stay true to his aniti-slavery beliefs

Hannibal Hamlin

400

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Her book Uncle Tom's Cabin changed many people minds and made them sensitive to Slavery

500

A graduate of West Point Academy, was a strict officer who trained the troops of the 20th Maine Regiment

Colonel Adelbert Ames

This and That

100

A sharp, steel point at the end of a gun

Bayonet

200

Secede

To withdraw from an organization

300

Abyssinian Church

Portland's black community held various meetings at the church in the mid 1800’s

400

Wilmot Proviso

Was a bill that would outlaw slavery in any new territory the U.S. gained from Mexico

500

Name of the regiment from Maine that changed the course of the Civil War. 

20th of Maine

That and This

100

separation

Segregation

200

A war term for flag

Colors

300

Sarah Smith Sampson

A true heroine, she helped nurse sick and wounded soldiers during the Civil War

400

How did the 20th of Maine use to win the Battle of Little Top?

Charged with Bayonets 

500

What was the Battle called that the 20th of Maine won, and what was the name of the field it was won at?

Battle of Little Round top

At Gettysburg

You think you know your Teachers

100

This teacher has twins

Mrs. Luetje

200

This teacher spend years teaching in Ecuador.

Mrs. Douglass

300

This teacher saw a bear and hit a moose all in the same hour

Mrs. Andrews

400

This teacher was once a Hairstylist

Mrs. O'Leary

500

This teacher once lived on a farm and had to tend the animals and the gardens.

Mrs. Carter