Vocabulary
What is the Union
What state had the most battles fought in?
What is Virginia
Which believed slavery should continue to be legal?
What is the south
Who was the enslaved women that arrived with a family visiting Minnesota?
Who is Eliza Winston
What was one way people back home in Minnesota supported the war and soldiers?
What is:
-Gathered supplies
-Raised $ for families with dead members
-Provided companionship
-Kept farms running
The 11 southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy
What year were the most battles fought in?
What is 1862
Which had big cities and factories with smaller farms?
What is the North
Who was told they weren't citizens so they had no rights and therefor were not free even in the north?
Who is Dred and Harriet Scott (Dred Scott case)
What was an effect the Civil War had on the United States?
What is caused 600,000 deaths (soldiers and civilians), left the South in ruins
(may have other answers)
A change to a government process or document.
What is Amendment
What was the first battle First Minnesota was involved in?
What is Bull Run
True or False: At one point in time, both the north and south owned slaves.
What is True
Who was the young man enlisted in the First Minnesota and had experience with many major battles?
Who is Charley Goddard
What was an effect the Civil War had on Minnesota?
What is:
-Farm product prices increased
-Wheat production doubled
-Immigrants kept coming
-Families were broken
Someone who wants to end slavery.
Who is an Abolitionist
What was the final battle First Minnesota was involved in?
What is Bristoe Station
Which thought slavery should not expand west?
What is the North
Who was the elected president that led to the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln
How did the Emancipaiton Proclamation change the goals of the war?
What is fighting to hold the US together AND to free those enslaved.
An order issued by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on January 1st, 1863. It announced that the enslaved people in the rebelling Confederate states were free.
What two battles were the furthest apart for First Minnesota to travel between? (Must have both correct!)
What is Malvern Hill and Antietam.
Southern plantions recieved ________ in exchange for providing _________.
What is money and cotton
Who led a group of escaped slaves on a log raft from Missouri to Minnesota?
Who is Robert Hickman
What happened after the southern states seceded?
What is Confederate forces began firing at the Union forces.