Underground Railroad
This route of safe houses helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This war ended slavery in the United States.
What is the Civil war?
This period after the Civil War was focused on rebuilding the South.
What is Reconstruction?
This executive order freedom enslaved people in states rebelling against the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This farming system required farmers to give a portion of their crops to a landowner.
What is Sharecopping?
This is a famous conductor who helped many enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This president led the United States through most of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This organization provided food, shelter, education, and other aid to formerly enslaved peoplele.
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This group benefited the most from the sharecropping system.
Who are landowners?
These were the secret locations where escaped slaves hid long the Underground Railroad.
What are stations or safe houses?
This man served as President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A Northerner who moved South during Reconstruction was known by this name.
What is a Carpetbagger?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
This group remained poor and dependent because of sharecropping.
Who are freedmen?
This title was given to people who guided the escaped slaves to freedom.
What is a conductor?
More than this many people died during the Civil War.
What is 620,000?
A white Southerner who supported the Union and Reconstruction was known by this term.
What is a Scalawag?
This famous speech was delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Name 3 states that joined the Confederacy
Potential Answers: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee.
This was the main purpose of the Underground Railroad.
What is helping enslaved people escape to the North for freedom?
This issue was the biggest cause of the Civil War.
What is Slavery?
The removal of these from the South helped bring Reconstruction to an end.
What are federal troops?
True or False: The Gettysburg address was an executive order that ended slavery.
What is False?
True or False: Sharecropping usually made freedmen wealthy and independent.
What is False?