Vocabulary
The president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was a network of people and places that helped people escape slavery.
What was the Underground Railroad.
In 1860, this state was the first to secede from the United States (stopped being a state and tried to make their own country.)
What is South Carolina?
This new technology was used to transport soldiers and supplies across the country.
What are railroads?
The movement to outlaw slavery and free all slaves.
What is the abolition movement?
The president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The three main cash crops that were grown on plantations.
What were tobacco, sugar and cotton?
This speech was given in 1863 and declared that all slaves are now free.
What is the Emancipation
Proclamation?
Due to poor medical knowledge, many soldiers died of _________.
What is disease?
The process of taking people from West Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to North and South America and enslaving them.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
Escaped from slavery and then rescued at least 70 other people from slavery.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawed _________.
What is slavery?
This ended in April of 1865.
What is The Civil War?
What are children?
The period of time after the Civil War when they were rebuilding the southern states.
What was Reconstruction?
The leader of the Union Army.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This man escaped from slavery and became a leader in the abolitionist movement.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This president was assassinated while watching a play in Washington D.C. a few days after the Civil War ended.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These large guns were used to cause large amounts of damage to buildings or troops.
What are cannons?
The leader of the Confederate Army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
These are the people who would find people who escaped slavery and bring them back to plantations.
Who were slave catchers?
This holiday celebrates the day that the last slaves were freed in Texas, on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Juneteenth?