Bullets and Bloodshed
John Brown led a raid on a federal armory/arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. What was his plan?
steal guns/artillery and distribute them to slaves to start an armed rebellion; resulted in failure and ultimately his death
The election of which president in 1860 angered and created fear in the South?
Abraham Lincoln
The southern states that seceded formed a new country: what was it called?
The Confederate States of America
Which abolitionist was known for his willingness to use violence to further his cause?
John Brown
Alabama
Yes - it's the deep South!
John Brown led anti-slavery forces against pro-slavery forces in an attempt to control a Midwestern territory, called this bloody event.
Bleeding Kansas
I was called a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Which was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
He wrote a famous autobiography and started a newspaper called The North Star.
Frederick Douglass
New York
No - slavery was fully abolished in NY by 1827
This was the immediate cause of the Civil War, but not the first battle.
Firing on Fort Sumter
This person was elected president of the new South.
Jefferson Davis
Provide a definition of "secession"
to leave, withdraw, or break away from a group (in our case, to leave the Union)
After she'd been working "all the live long day," she worked as a scout and spy for the Union Army.
Harriet Tubman
North Carolina
Yes - despite "North" in the name, our home state is a Southern one
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
The Battle of First Manassas or First Bull Run
Who am I? I lived in my grandmother's attic for 7 years hidden from my children and potential slave hunters.
Harriet Jacobs
What is the main reason that some states decided to secede?
States' Rights (although the main right they were focused on was slavery)
Which abolitionist did Abraham Lincoln say was "the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war?"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Maryland
Yes - situated just below the Mason-Dixon Line, this state did have the practice of slavery, although they abolished slavery near the end of the Civil War.
Who fired the first shots (cannons actually) of the Civil War?
The Confederacy
This person was the first black woman to win a major court case involving slavery.
Sojourner Truth
What is the line called between Pennsylvania/Delaware and Maryland that divided the North and the South?
Mason-Dixon Line
What is a "sojourner" and why does that make sense about the life of Sojourner Truth?
a person who travels/lives place to place temporarily, often for religious or other causes; she believed she was called upon by God to travel the free states sharing her "truth" about slavery
Kentucky
Yes - it is a border state! They did not abolish slavery until after the Civil War, and despite it passing with enough states ratifying it, they didn't adopt the 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) until 1976!