The most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
A loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than the whole country.
What is sectionalism?
100
The place where John Brown planned to steal weapons from the army's arsenal.
Where is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
100
A state in which slavery was not allowed.
What is a free state?
100
The rebuilding and healing of the country after the Civil War.
What is reconstruction?
200
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
Laws to control the behavior of slaves, also made life difficult for them.
What is slave codes?
200
One of the forts still under Union control, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. And gave this place one hour to surrender after they asked for three days.
What is Fort Sumner?
200
A state in which slavery was allowed.
What is a slave state?
200
Laws that denied African Americans many civil rights.
What is black codes?
300
An enslaved African American, who's owner died and went to court claiming he was a free man because he had lived in a free state.
Who is Dred Scott?
300
An organized, secret system set up to help enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
President Lincoln sent 35,000 troops to invade this place, the capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond, Virginia.
300
A law that said that escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners, even if they had reached Northern states where slavery was not allowed.
What is Fugitive Slave Law?
300
Was established to help the 4 million freedman, or former slaves, after the Civil War.It built hospitals and schools for blacks in the south. It hired black and white tachers for the North and the South.
What is Freedman's Bureau?
400
First assassinated president. He's killer was John Wilkes Booth.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
New states north of the Missouri line would be free states. New states south of the Missouri line would be slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
One of the most important battles of the Civil War was a three-day struggle fought in this place. This was the farthest north that Confederate forces had advanced into Union territory.
What is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania?
400
Slave states that seemed unsure whether to stay in the Union or join the Confederacy.
What is border states?
400
The Amendment that gave African Americans citizenship and said that no state could deny the equal protection of the law to all citizens.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
500
The Civil War's most capable general on the Confederate side?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
Shutting off of an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.
What is a blockade?
500
One part of the Anaconda Plan called for Union troops to gain control of the Mississippi River to weaken the Confederacy. Capturing this place which lay on the east bank of the river, would achieve this goal.
What is Vicksburg, Mississippi?
500
A war between people of the same country.
What is civil war?
500
Bring charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives.