Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Facts
100
Citizens who made the laws in the Virginia colony.
What is House of Burgesses
100
A book that has facts about different subjects.
What is Reference Book
100
A large farm where cotton was grown.
What is Plantation
100
Sixteenth President of the United States; President during the Civil War.
What is Abraham Lincoln
100
A place where slaves stayed on the Underground Railroad was called what?
What is a station
200
A statement written in 1776 that explained why the 13 colonies should be independent from England.
What is Declaration of Independence
200
A book or set of books that contains information on a number of subjects.
What is Encyclopedia
200
A slave who escaped to the North and became a famous speaker against slavery.
What is Frederick Douglass
200
President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
What is Jefferson Davis
200
What was part of the southeastern economy?
What is slavery
300
The third President of the United States. He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
What is Thomas Jefferson
300
Words that tell what part of the alphabet is covered in an encyclopedia.
What is Guide Words
300
The states that broke away from the United States during the Civil War.
What is Confederacy
300
Leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War because he didn't want to fight against his own family.
What is Robert E. Lee
300
What was the most important thing the Declaration of Independence stated?
What is the American colonies wanted to be free
400
Important member of the House of Burgesses who spoke out against the taxes demanded by the British government.
What is Patrick Henry
400
A reference book that gives the meaning, spellings, and pronunciations of words.
What is Dictionary
400
The Northern states during the Civil War.
What is Union
400
Leader of the Union army during the Civil War.
What is Ulysses S. Grant
400
The Civil War was fought over slavery and what else?
What is the states wanted the right to leave the United States.
500
The first permanent English settlement in North America; settled in 1607.
What is Jamestown
500
A crop that is grown to be sold for money. What was the crop for the South?
What is Cash Crop and Cotton
500
The war between the Union and the Confederacy over slavery and the right of states to leave the United States.
What is Civil War
500
Many slaves found their way north by following what?
What is the stars
500
How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slavery?
What is it created need for more slaves.