Important People
She was born a slave and after she escaped she came back to help others escape.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
23,000 soldiers lay dead or injured following this bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This part of the country owned slaves around the time of the Civil War.
What is the South?
The Union fought against this right to own people as property.
What is slavery?
The South did this because they were afraid that Abraham Lincoln would end slavery.
What is to secede?
He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and was elected president around the time of the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This riot happened in a border state, and it resulted in the first deaths of the Civil War.
What is the Baltimore Riot?
Slaves usually worked about this many hours every day.
What is 12 to 14 hours per day?
The Union's purpose of going into war was to abolish slavery and get control of this.
What is the Confederacy?
The Union had to wait this many years while the Civil War was taking more and more lives before the Confederacy surrendered.
What is four years?
He was the General of the Union army in the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This battle was won by the Union and was a turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These routes led escaped slaves to land that didn't allow slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Abraham Lincoln wrote this document to end slavery in the south and this document helped the Union win the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The South had slaves grow and harvest this major crop.
What is cotton?
He was the President of the Confederacy and was born in Kentucky.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
10 members of John Brown's band including two of his sons were killed in this battle.
What is the Battle of Harper's Ferry?
Slave-owners usually hired this person to make sure that the slaves were doing their jobs.
What is an overseer?
Because this slave state was part of the Union, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free the slaves in this state. Slavery ended one year later when this state wrote a new constitution.
What is Maryland?
This person was the general of the Confederacy.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
She was born in Connecticut and her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" let people see how bad a slave's life is.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This battle was fought in Maryland on September 14, 1862.
What is the Battle of South Mountain?
This religious group was almost all abolitionists and hated slavery.
Who are the Quakers?
This former slave was a spy for the Union. She also was a conductor in the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A legend says that this Union-supporter avoided being shot by confederate soldiers by saying, "you can shoot me, but don't shoot your flag."
Who is Barbara Fritchie?