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She was an escaped slave who saved over 300 slaves using the Underground Railroad.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

100

This was the first major battle of the Civil War. 

What is the Battle of Bull Run?

100

This side won the Civil War.

What is the Union?

100

This area of America was industrialized.

What is the North?

100

People who campaigned to end slavery were called this term.

What is an abolitionist?

200

He was an escaped slave who led a revolt killing white plantation owners.

Who is Nat Turner?

200

This was the capital of the Confederacy and was burned to protect it from Union forces.

What is Richmond?

200

This president is the one who ordered the blockade on the southern ports.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

200

Wanted the new states coming in to the union to be free states. 

What is the North?

200

This means separating.

What is seceding?
300

This African American was a spy for the union - she worked in the confederate white house.  She used to be a slave.

Who is Mary Bowser?

300

This was the battle that Stonewall Jackson helped win?

What is the Battle of Bull Run? (Remember a bull running into a stone wall).

300

This is the battle that ended in a draw. 

What is the battle of the Monitor and Merrimack?
300

This area of America was upset when Abraham Lincoln was elected.

What is the South?

300

This group of people did not take sides in the war.

What is American Indians?

400

He was a white abolitionist who raided the armory at Harper's Ferry Virginia.

Who is John Brown?

400

This was the first battle between two ironclad ships.

What is the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack?

400

This is where Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant. 

What is Appomattox Court House?

400

The western and eastern counties of Virginia disagreed on slavery and seceding.

What is the reason West Virginia became a state?

400

This group of people mostly fought with the Confederacy because they believed in slavery. 

What is white Virginians?

500

She was a Virginia abolitionist and spy for the Union Army

Who is Elizabeth Van Lew?

500

This was the battle that Robert E. Lee helped win. 

What is the Battle of Fredericksburg?

500

Union strategy developed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott in 1861 to defeat the Confederacy by blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River

What is the Anaconda Plan?

500

This side's advantages include strong military leaders and a better knowledge of the land. 

What is the South?

500

Most of the people in this group fought in the war for their freedom. 

What is Enslaved African Americans?

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