Lesson 1
The secret system that helped slaves escape from slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Name two ways women helped in the war effort.
What is:
volunteered to help the wounded
made clothes and bandages
ran family farms/worked in factories while men were gone
spies
tennage girls: got jobs filling gun parts with gunpowder and bullets
Southerners used slaves to work on these large farms.
What is a plantation?
The president who did not allow the southern states to leave the Union and asked for volunteers to help fight.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This man was born a slave in Philadelphia, bought his own freedom, and founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME).
Who was Richard Allen?
The event that occurred when a slave owner came looking for his runaway slave.
What is the Christiana Resistance?
The action the South took after President Lincoln said slavery would not be allowed in any new states.
What is seceded from the Union and formed its own government?
The North was called this name.
What was the Union?
This person shot and killed Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This man from Pittsburgh wrote songs that showed that African Americans had feelings, just like everyone else. These songs and stories helped people in the North to see that slaves were peopel and not just property.
Who is Stephen Foster?
The law passed by Congress that punished anyone trying to help someone escape from slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The two main things the North and South had different ideas about that caused them to be divided.
What is slavery and economy?
The South was called this name.
What was the Confederacy? (will also accept Confederate States of America)
This person was mailed in a box to Philadelphia to escape slavery.
Who is Henry "Box" Brown?
Who was Lucretia Mott?
The name of the famous speech Abraham Lincoln delivered after a three day battle in Pennsylvania.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
A war between people in the same country.
What is a civil war?
This person wrote a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin to tell people about the horrors of slavery.
The clerk of the PA Anti-Slavery Society who helped more than 100 slaves make ti to freedom every year.
Who was William Still?
Doctor in Pittsburgh who worked with Frederick Douglas to publish a newspaper The North Star, active in Pittsburgh's Underground Railroad, leader in the army during the Civil War.
Who is Martin Delany?
After the war ended and the slaves were freed, life still was not easy for African Americans. Name two ways.
What is
many schools did not allow black children to attend
hard to get good jobs
poor
did not bring an end to the bad feelings between the North and the South
Who were abolitionists?
The man during the Christiana Resistance who protected four escaped slaves with his gun from Edward Gorusch.
Who was William Parker?
This couple escaped from slavery by impersonating a sick young man and his slave traveling to see a doctor.
Who are William and Ellen Craft?