Vocabulary
The Fight Against Slavery
The Union Divided
Rebuilding the Nation
Miscellaneous
100
Someone who wanted to end slavery
What is an abolitionist?
100
She was known for her work with the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This battle in South Carolina marked the start of the Civil War.
What was the Battle at Fort Sumter?
100
This was the name given to the time period of government control after the Civil War that called for the South to be rebuilt after being destroyed.
What was Reconstruction?
100
A system of secret routes to help slaves escape from the South
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
A large farm with a single crop
What is a plantation?
200
Why did most slaves live in the South and not the North?
Most slaves lived in the South because the large plantations needed their labor. (Benefited the economy!)
200
This was the name given to the southern states that seceded from the Union.
What was The Confederacy?
200
After the Civil War, President Lincoln was shot and killed in Ford's Theater by this person.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
200
What made New Jersey an important location on the Underground Railroad?
Escaping slaves from Maryland and Delaware passed through New Jersey.
300
An official public announcement
What is a proclamation?
300
These people were active in the abolition movement because their religion called for equal treatment for all people.
Who were the Quakers?
300
This was the name given to the Northern States during the Civil War.
What was The Union?
300
What was created that helped slaves get jobs, go to school to learn to read and write, gave meals to the poor?
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
The name of the first self-governing African American town outside the South
What is Lawnside (Free Haven), New Jersey?
400
A period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt
What is Reconstruction?
400
Why were southern slave owners opposed to the Underground Railroad?
Southern slave owners opposed the underground railroad because it helped their slaves escape.
400
Name 3 important battles that took place during the Civil War.
Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg were important battles in the Civil War.
400
Besides learning to read and write, what is something the African Americans could do AFTER the Civil War?
What is vote and be elected as a government official?
400
What is the population of NJ in 1970?
What is 7,000,000?
500
To set free
What is to Emancipate?
500
This act required that escaped slaves be returned if they were found in the North.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
500
This was the place where the South surrendered to the North which ended the Civil War.
Where was the Appomattox Court House in 1865?
500
What happened to the South's economy as a result of The Civil War? Why?
The economy shrank because there weren't any slaves available to work on the plantations.
500
Which war had the most casualties? How many?
What was The Civil War with 620,000 casualties?