Slavery
The year slavery ended in the USA
What is 1865?
The primary reason why the civil war started
What is slavery?
The job he had under the civil war
In the Southern states, this fraction of the population was African American
What is 1/3?
The year the civil war began
The year Abraham Lincoln was elected president
What is 1861?
Enslaved people were not allowed to learn these two basic skills
What are reading and writing?
This side in the civil war was known as the Union
What is the North?
In the order of U.S. presidents, this was Lincoln’s number
What is the 16th president?
The year all Nothern states had abolished slavery
What is 1804
This many soldiers died during the civil war
What is 620.000?
The year Abraham Lincoln was assasinated
What is 1865?
This invention made it easier to process cotton
What is cotton gin?
This amendment, passed in 1865, officially ending slavery in the USA
What is the 13th amendment?
Issued on January 1, 1863, this document freed slaves in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?