Important People
I took care of my owner's baby when I was young and escaped from slavery on the Underground Railroad. I was a conductor and a spy for the Union Army because I knew the roads and secret paths around Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Who was Harriet Tubman/Minty?
A very large farm with a big house where large amounts of crops are grown. What am I called?
What is a plantation?
The secret way that enslaved Africans escaped to freedom in the North. What am I called?
What is The Underground Railroad?
The group of Southern states that seceded from the United States.
What is the Confederacy?
Something useful or important is considered to have this. What am I?
What is value?
I was elected president because people in the North believed I would not allow slavery to expand. I was also the president to the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Name given to the Confederate (southern) soldiers.
Who are Rebels?
My job was to lead enslaved Africans to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Who am I?
Who is the conductor?
The group of Northern states who thought that it was wrong for the South to secede the United States.
What is the Union?
When something becomes greater in size or spreads out. What am I?
What is expand?
I was the man that commanded the Confederate Army. I had to surrender at Appomattox. My soldiers called me "The Old Man."
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
Nickname people called Union soldiers.
Who are Yankees?
The practice of forcing people to do hard work without pay or freedom.
What is slavery?
An imaginary line between the states of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and I separate where slavery was allowed and where it was not. What am I called?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
We gave ADVICE to help Lincoln make decisions about slavery and the Civil War. What are we called?
What are advisors?
I was the man who commanded the Union Army. I had the nickname "Unconditional Surrender."
Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?
People who wanted to end slavery everywhere in the United States. Who were we?
Who were abolitionists?
This proclamation said that slavery would be abolished in the Confederate states. What am I?
The Emancipation Proclamation
Important crops that only grew well in the South, causing the Southerners to continue slavery. What are we? (Must name at least two.)
What are tobacco, cotton, sugar?
I am a war between different groups of people or regions within one country. What am I?
What is Civil War?
I helped wounded soldiers get supplies and care they needed. Later, I founded the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
I am good when people buy, trade, and sell goods. What am I called?
What is economy?
Group of brave people who fought together to pressure political leaders to end slavery. Who are we?
Who are Abolitionists?
A song that gave a coded message to the enslaved Africans about the Underground Railroad. What am I called?
What is "Follow The Drinking Gourd?"
I am the announcement that said slavery would be abolished in the Confederate states. What am I?
What is Emancipation Proclamtion?