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Slavery
Abraham Lincoln
The War
Grant and Lee
Women in the War
100
In the United States, slaves were black men and women whose ___________ were brought here against their will from Africa.
What is ancestors.
100
Abraham Lincoln held many jobs before he became a politician, such as a farmhand, a store owner, postmaster, surveyor, rail-splitter, and lawyer before being elected as _____________ of the United States in 1860.
What is President.
100
When the war began, the Northerners called the Southerners _________ and the Southerners called the Northerners _________. Soldiers in the Confederate Army wore _____ and Union soldiers wore _______.
What are Rebels and Yankees. Gray and blue.
100
Before the Civil War, Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant both attended the military academy at ______ ______, were offered to be the head of the ________ army, and fought in the __________ war.
What is West Point, Union, and Mexican.
100
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book called ______ _____ ________, a story that was a about a slave and his very mean slave owner. It is the book that some people believe started the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin.
200
During the years leading up to the Civil War, slaves in the United States were mostly in the ______.
What is the South.
200
Once, when he was working as a store clerk, Lincoln closed the store and walked six miles to return money to a customer who had paid a few pennies too many; afterwards, people starting calling him his nickname, ___________ _______.
What is Honest Abe.
200
The Southern states seceded, or left the Union, and declared themselves a new country called the _________________ ______________ of ________________. The president of the Union was __________ __________ and the president of the Confederacy was ___________ ________.
What is the Confederate States of America, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis.
200
At West Point, __________ was an ok student and ________ was a great student.
What is Grant and Lee.
200
_______ ________ was a slave who ran away to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and helped hundreds of other slaves escape to free states through the Underground Railroad. (Hint: Her nickname was Moses).
Who was Harriet Tubman.
300
The people who were against slavery and tried to convince others that slavery was wrong and should be abolished were called __________.
What are abolitionists.
300
As President, Lincoln went to war against the South to restore, or save, the ______ and to end _______.
What is the Union and slavery.
300
People who fought for the Confederacy were fighting because they wanted __________ to stay. They were also fighting for States' __________.
What is slavery, rights.
300
During the Civil War, President Lincoln promoted ______ to be in charge of the Union Army after the North lost at the Battle of Gettysburg. *Bonus question: Can you name his two nicknames?*
Who is Grant. Uncle Sam and United States.
300
Clara Barton, a teacher who later became a very important Civil War nurse, was known as the ______ of the battlefield.
What is angel.
400
In the South, farmers needed and wanted slaves to plant, harvest, and process their cotton and other crops on their large farms, called ___________. (These large farms were not found in the North).
What are plantations.
400
Two years into the war, when the two sides refused to stop fighting, President Lincoln signed the _________________ _________________, a document that declared all the slaves in the Confederate states free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
400
Robert E. Lee's attempt to invade the North at the battle of _________ in Maryland resulted in a loss for the Confederates, partly because a Southern general left copies of Lee's battle plans wrapped around a bundle of cigars!
What is Antietam.
400
General Robert E. Lee had to think long and hard about which side to fight for; in the end he chose to fight for the Confederacy because of the loyalty he felt to his home state of _______.
What is Virginia.
400
Isabella Baumfree was a slave who had a religious experience and decided to spend her life arguing against slavery and preaching the truth; she even changed her name to __________ ___________ after this experience.
What is Sojourner Truth.
500
The group of people who helped slaves escaped to the North to free states, whether it was by hiding slaves in their attics or basements or providing them with food or other kinds of help, were part of the ___________ ____________.
What is the Underground Railroad.
500
The Civil War ended in ______, the same year President Lincoln was assassinated by one of the many people who were upset with the South losing the war and the slaves being freed. *Bonus question* What was the name of the man who killed President Lincoln?
What is 1865.
500
When the Union general _________ _________ _________ and his men tore up railroad tracks, killed farm animals, and burned everything in their path, including the city of Atlanta, Georgia, Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army were completely cut off from their troops in Virginia, which soon led to the defeat of the Confederacy.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman.
500
At the end of the war, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in Appomattox, Virginia, and even though Grant started the war wanting nothing but "______________ _______________" from the Confederate Army, Grant arrived with a plan to help the Confederate soldiers, not punish them.
What is unconditional surrender.
500
Elizabeth Van Lew, the daughter of a wealthy Southern slave owner, and Mary Elizabeth Bowser, a former slave of the Van Lew family, were important women _____ in the Civil War. They were spies for the ______ Army.
What are spies; Union.