They were captured and taken from their homelands to be sold to slave traders.
100
What is a secret system of routes that helped slaves scape to freedom.
Underground Railroad
100
Why did southern states secede from the United States?
They did not believe the government has the right to tell them what to do with their slaves.
100
Who fought in the Civil War?
The North and South
100
People who wanted slavery to be end were called?
abolitionists
200
Why was the Civil War important?
It finished the work of the Declaration of Independence by making everyone free.
200
What was the outcome of the Civil War?
The Confederacy surrendered and all black men, women and children in the country became free.
200
Who suggested and amendment giving people who had been slaves the right to vote.
Thaddeus Stevens
200
Many women helped the war effort by doing what 3 things?
They were spies.
They worked on factories and on farms.
They were nurses
200
What are 3 facts about Lucretia Mott?
She was a Quaker
She spoke out about abolition and women's rights
She was a teacher
300
He was a doctor in Pittsburgh who published a newspaper with another famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, called the North Star.
Martin Delaney
300
He was president during the Civil War. He gave the Gettysburg Address.
Abraham Lincoln
300
He was a Union General
Ulysses S. Grant
300
He was born a slave in Philadelphia and was allowed to buy his freedom for $2,000 and founded the first organized church for African Americans in the U.S.
Richard Allen
300
He was an actor in a play who shot and killed (assassinated) President Lincoln while he was watching a play.
John Wilkes Booth
400
His friend helped him mail himself to freedom in a wooden crate.
Henry "Box" Brown
400
He was a Confederate General that surrendered to the Union and ended the war.
General Robert E. Lee
400
The Freedmen's Bureau did what things for former slaves?
They built schools and gave food, shelter and medical care to people in need.
400
How were black people treated unequally or unfairly after the war? Name two things.
There were few schools for black children and it was difficult to find work.
400
In the Underground Railroad what were "stations"?
They were homes, barns or other buildings where runaways could rest and get a meal.