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100
These were large farms in the South. Slaves often worked on them.
What are plantations?
100
The government of the South was known by this name during the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
100
This statement by President Abraham Lincoln issued on January 1, 1863, freed all of the slaves in the Confederate states still at war with the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This means a change, or addition, to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
100
He was the president during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
This word means loyalty and is used in the pledge we say everyday.
What is allegiance?
200
He was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This was a federal agency established in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
These are the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
He was the person who invented the light bulb and the phonograph.
Who was Thomas Edison?
300
The system of farming in which farmers rented land and paid landowners with a share of the crops they raised.
What is sharecropping?
300
The Civil War began here on April 12, 1861.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
300
This is a law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
300
They were brothers who owned a bicycle repair shop and later developed the first successful airplane in 1803.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
400
This is an argument or discussion about an issue.
What is a debate?
400
The Civil War ended here on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House, Virginia?
400
This is a famous Civil War speech given by President Lincoln at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
This amendment gave the newly freed slaves the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
400
He invented the cotton gin that made cleaning seeds from cotton easier and increased the demand for slavery in the South.
Who is Eli Whitney?
500
This means to break away from a group, as the Southern states broke away from the United States in 1861.
What is to secede or secession?
500
This Civil War Angel of the Battle Field is credited with founding the Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
500
This was the period of rebuilding after the Civil War during which the Southern states rejoined the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
500
The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments are sometimes referred to as these.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
500
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which exposed the cruelties of slavery to people before the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?