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100
This form of transportation was very common in the North and was an advantage during the war.
What is railroads?
100
This crop became the most important to the southern economy during the 1800s.
What is cotton?
100
This compromise tried to keep a balance between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
The Union and the Confederacy were known by the color of their uniforms. (what colors)
What is blue and gray?
100
Runaway slaves in Kentucky and Virginia could cross the Ohio River and use this to get to Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
People lived in cities so that they could find work in these businesses.
What is factories?
200
People live in smaller towns and many lived on this type of large farm.
What is a plantation?
200
The election of this person to the presidency caused many in the South to want to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Both the Union and Confederate sides used the draft for this purpose.
What is to get more soldiers?
200
The Emancipation Proclamation did this.
What is free the slaves in the South?
300
This group of people worked to end slavery.
What is abolitionists?
300
Slaves in Maryland that wanted to get to Canada might travel through this state.
What is Pennsylvania?
300
The Compromise of 1850 allowed this state to enter the union as a free state.
What is California?
300
This Confederate attack at Gettysburg caused the loss of thousands of lives.
What is Pickett's Charge?
300
The place where Lee surrendered to Grant.
What is Appomattox?
400
This book encouraged many people to be against slavery.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
400
States that are in the 'deep' south. (name two)
What are Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana?
400
This state was 'bleeding' because of fighting about slavery.
What is Kansas?
400
This was the biggest cause of death during the Civil War.
What is disease?
400
These amendments gave African Americans freedom, citizenship, and adult men the vote.
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?