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The most famous Underground Railroad conductor.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Site of John Brown's most notorious attack.
What was Harpers Ferry?
He led the bloodiest slave revolt in American History
Who was Nat Turner?
This was the first real battle of the Civil War.
What is Manassas/Bull Run?
This terrorist organization formed in the South after the war.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This founder of the American Red Cross nursed the wounded at Antietam.
Who was Clara Barton?
The 1850 Act requiring Northerners to help return runaway slaves to their owners.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This man sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free state.
Who was Dred Scott?
The Monitor and the Merrimack.
What were the first two ironclad ships to engage in battle?
This president was impeached.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Southerner George Fitzhugh wrote that slavery was good, and that slaves were better off than these people.
What are northern factory workers?
Approximately the number of black men who volunteered for the Union Army.
What is 185,000 - 200,000+?
Bloodiest battle and turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
The name of the political group that wanted to punish the South the most.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
These sisters were from South Carolina and spoke out against slavery.
Who were Sarah and Angelina Grimke?
Soon after Abraham Lincoln was elected, this state, with the highest percentage of slaves per capita, seceded from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This regiment was led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and was one of the first Black regiments in the war.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
This city fell on July 4, 1863, opening the Mississippi River to the Union.
What is Vicksburg?
White Southerners who had supported the Union were called this.
What are Scalawags?
This Civil War hero was elected President in 1868.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This Black leader spoke out in favor of Black men serving in the Union Army.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Laws passed in the South after the war intended to limit Black people's opportunities.
What are Black Codes?
This side had a greater population and industrial capacity which helped more as the war went on.
Who is the North/Union?
This resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?