Vocabulary
Battles
Famous People
Fun Facts
Civil War Events
100
An economy that has many factories and businesses.
What is industrialized?
100
The first major land battle took here with the union taking a major defeat.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
100
He served as the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Ammunition is stored in these.
What is an armory?
100
This practice forced African Americans in the south to work in fields with no rights.
What is slavery?
200
And end to all slavery.
What is abolition?
200
The battle between these two iron clad ships ended in a draw.
What are the Merrimack and the Monitor.
200
She established a route escaped slaves took to freedom in the north.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
This is the location of the first battle in the Civil War.
What is Ft. Sumter
200
This is the belief that states have rights independent of the federal government.
What is state's rights?
300
This the act of a state leaving the union of states or a country.
What is secession?
300
The capital of the Confederacy was moved here, putting the union and confederate capitals just about 100 miles apart.
What is Richmond?
300
He was the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
This route to freedom was established by Harriet Tubman.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
This region's economy was industrialized.
What is the North?
400
Large farms that grow a major cash crop such as tobacco or cotton.
What is a plantation?
400
This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
400
This slave, living in Virginia, led a revolt against slave owners before the Civil War.
What is Nat Turner?
400
This document declared an end to slavery throughout the confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Virginians in the western part of the state were against slavery and eventually broke away to form this state.
What is West Virginia?
500
An economy based on farming.
What is agricultural?
500
This military expert led the confederacy to victory in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
He escaped slavery by being boxed up and shipped to Philadelphia. He later spoke against slavery throughout the North.
Who is John "Box" Brown?
500
This General for the Confederacy earned this nickname when he was described as standing like a stonewall in battle.
Who is Stonewall Jackson (Thomas Jackson)?
500
Virginia joined this side in the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
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