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Slavery
Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Revolutionary War
Early Colonies
100
People who have been forced to perform menial tasks for no pay.
Who are slaves?
100
The upper territories of the United States, with the main economy focussing on industry. Opposed and fought against the South during the Civil War.
What is the North?
100
In a log cabin in Illinois
What is Abraham Lincoln's birthplace?
100
The First President of the United States, and the commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
100
A group of merchants who recieved a charter to colonize the New World.
What is the Virginia Company?
200
The lower territories of the United States, with the primary economy centering around agriculture. Also included a large slave population.
What is the South?
200
The leading commander of the Union forces during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who is General Meade?
200
Ford's Theatre
Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
200
An incident preceding the Revolutionary War. A crowd threw various deitrus and debris at a squad of British redcoats. In retaliation, the troops fired into the crowd, killing five civilians.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
The ship used by British Separatists to settle in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower?
300
People who buy and use slaves.
Who are slave owners?
300
The Confederate ironclad built using the wreck of the USS Merrimack. It was used in the Battle of Hampton Roads, where it fought the Union ironclad USS Monitor.
What is the CSS Virginia?
300
John Wilkes Booth
Who is Abraham Lincoln's assassinator
300
The site of the final battle of the Revolutionary War, where the combined forces of the Continental Army and a French army forced the British forces to surrender.
What is Yorktown?
300
A famous English explorer, known for settling the lost colony of Roanoke.
Who is Walter Raleigh?
400
People employed by slave owners to track down and capture runaway slaves.
Who are slave-catchers?
400
The site of Wilmer McLean's house, where Confederate general Robert Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses Grant, formally ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
400
A law issued by Lincoln that freed slaves in the Confederate States
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
A Patriot general who was the commander of Fort Ticonderoga. He later betrayed the Patriots to the British, allowing British forces to capture Fort Ticonderoga. After the war, he fled with his wife to the United Kingdom, to avoid punishment by the Patriots.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
400
One of the first English colonies in the New World, settled by Christopher Newport in present-day Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
500
A lawsuit ruling that African-Americans are not citizens of the United States, and cannot bring any cases to court unless both sides are African-American. The case was named after the African-American who brought the case to the Supreme Court.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
500
The method of warefare used by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman on his march to Georgia, involving the destruction of anything useful (such as livestock, food, shelter, natural resources, ammunition, weapons, and railroads) within a set radius. In the case of General Sherman, the radius of destruction was fifty miles wide.
What is Total War?
500
Speech given by Lincoln during the Civil War that paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, both in the North and South
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
The commander of the French forces sent to aid General Washington. His army helped the Continental Army defeat the British forces at Yorktown.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
500
The word carved into a post of the abandoned Roanoke colony. Also the name of the Native American tribe residing nearby the colony.
What is Croatoan?