Who is the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
100
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
100
What type of economy did the Confederacy have?
Agricultural
100
What was the capital of the Union?
Washington DC
100
Which state sent the most Confederate troops?
North Carolina
200
Who led the raid at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
200
How many people did the Union have compared to the Confederacy?
Union- 22 million
Confederacy- 9 million
200
Which side believed in states' rights?
Confederacy
200
Define the term secede.
To break away; to split up
200
What happened to the NC coastline?
Union forces captured coastal towns
300
Who was a slave preacher, and led the slave revolt that killed 55 whites in one night?
Nat Turner
300
Who was the famous general of the Union?
Ulysses S. Grant
300
What was the battle before the beginning of the Civil War that took place in Charleston, SC?
Fort Sumter
300
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
First Battle of Manasses
First Battle of Bull Run
300
What import was important to eastern NC that the North used for their textile industries?
Cotton
400
What did Abraham Lincoln sign that freed the slaves in the South?
Emancipation Proclamation
400
Who was the famous general of the Confederacy?
Robert E. Lee
400
Which side controlled Congress in the US before the war?
Union
400
Name and then explain the plan the North used to fight the South.
The Anaconda Plan
They surrounded the South and cut off trade to other parts of the world.
400
Explain the major effect of eastern plantations when NC coastal towns were invaded.
Slaves ran for freedom, and began fighting for the Union.
500
Who wrote the abolitionist newspaper titled, The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
500
Explain how the Union used tariffs to dictate where the Confederacy bought goods.
The Union put a tax on European goods, so that the Confederacy would buy cheaper Union goods.
500
Explain why the election of Abraham Lincoln upset the South.
Lincoln was an abolitionist, and extremely unpopular in the South. He was so unpopular that his name wasn't even on the ballot for the southern states.
500
Explain 3 hardships the Confederacy faced during the Civil War.
New tax, portion of crops were taken, and conscription
500
Explain Zebulon Vance.
Became governor of NC, and supported the Confederacy. However, he did not support conscription or the new taxes.