Slavery is wrong
This is the number of slaves in the United States in the mid-1800's.
What is 4 million?
The nickname of Henry Brown, the protagonist in the story we heard in Library.
What is Henry "Box" Brown?
The name of the "nation" that 11 Southern states gave themselves.
What is the Confederacy?
The approximate number of soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
What is 3 million?
It's the number of years Lincoln refers to in the first line of his famous speech at Gettysburg in 1863.
What is 87?
The main reason why the Republican Party was formed, the party of Abraham Lincoln.
What is to promote the abolishment of slavery?
Who are the Quakers?
To formally withdraw from membership to a Federal Union.
What is to secede?
The approximate number of soldiers who died in the Civil War.
What is 800,000?
"A House Divided Against Itself, Cannot ... " do this.
What is STAND?
The name of the law passed by Congress to allow the return of escaped slaves AND to punish those who helped others escape slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
It's the term used for those along the Underground Railroad who believed that slavery was wrong and were willing to risk their own safety to help.
What are Conductors or Station Masters?
One the main crops that Southern plantations used to make money.
What is Cotton? (or What is Tobacco?)
It's the number of soldiers who were killed, wounded or missing in action at the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is 50,000?
It's the side during the Civil War that was most positively affected by the Industrial Revolution?
What is the North? (or the Union)
What slavery was considered to be when the country's government was formed in 1783.
What is an unsolved problem?
It's the approximate number of slaves who escaped to Northern states, Canada and Mexico before and during the Civil War era.
What is 60,000 - 100,000?
It is a main factor in why the Southern states were more dependent on agriculture for their economy.
What is a longer growing season? (warmer climate -- closer to the Equator)
It is the approximate length of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
What is 2 minutes long? (272 words)
The idea that states should have more power than the national government.
What are States' Rights?
She was the author of a famous book that described the horrors of slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The name of the man who published a book describing the heroes of the Underground Railroad, the reason why we know as much as we do about this time in U.S. history.
Who was William Still?
This invention, though very useful, actually helped keep the Southern states in slavery longer.
What is the Cotton Gin?
It's what Abraham Lincoln was trying to convey when addressing the audience at the Civil War memorial at Gettysburg, PA.
What is remind the citizens why the country formed the type of government it did? ("By the people, for the people and of the people" and equality among people)
It's the circumstance in American history that the formation of the Confederacy is compared to.
What is the American Revolution? (states or colonies formally withdrawing from membership to a Federal Union)