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A person who opposed slavery
What is an abolitionist
100
He was the President of the United States of America during the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the Civil War. It lasted 34 hours and the South won.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter and who won?
100
A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
What is a slave?
100
More People Industry More Money Railroads
What is one advantage that the North had in the war?
200
The journey that slaves had to endure in which they were brought from African countries to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage
200
The two generals from both the Union and the Confederate army at the end of the war
Who are Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee?
200
The Battle of Antietam was significant because it was the battle with the most causalities during the war. It's important because it was the first battle to happen on Union soil. The North won this battle.
What is the significance of the Battle of Antietam and who won?
200
People that are wounded or killed
What is a casualty?
200
Defensive War Better trained generals More farmland
What are two advantages that the South had during the war?
300
33%
White Americans believed that they were superior to Africans which is why they made them slaves. Many people believed that all Whites at this time owned slaves although this is untrue. What percentage of White Americans actually owned slaves.
300
The President of the Confederate States of America
Who was Jefferson Davis?
300
Border states were 4 states that had slaves but continued to stay and fight for the Union.
What is a border state?
300
Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states. It did not end slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The Gettysburg Address
What famous speech starts "Four score and seven years ago..."
400
Formally withdrawing from an allegiance/alliance and 11 states withdrew from the Union
What does it mean to secede? How many states seceded from the Union?
400
Harriet Tubman was a slave who escaped and began working on the Underground Railroad. She was a spy for the Union and also helped save numerous slaves.
Who was Harriet Tubman and what was her major contribution to the war?
400
Maryland was the most important border state because the Union capitol, Washington D.C., was located very close to it. Had the Confederate army taken D.C., the war would have ended a lot quicker.
What was the most important border state and why?
400
The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the United States in 1793 by Eli Whitney (1765–1825). Whitney applied for a patent on October 28, 1793; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807. It separated the seeds of the cotton plants from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
400
The scene at the end where Colonel Shaw and Tripp were buried together showed that despite the racial differences and differences in military rank, they had both come to care about one another and respect one another.
Explain the significance of Colonel Shaw being buried with Tripp.
500
This court case stated that "Blacks were not and could never be U.S citizens, following a Black slave who tried to sue for his freedom after his master died. This was a very influential decision that would impact future court cases surrounding racism.
What is the Dred Scott case
500
John Brown was a white abolitionist from the North who wanted slaves to rebel. He went to the South and participated in Harper's Ferry where he was captured and later executed.
Who was John Brown?
500
This battle led to a 47 day siege of Mississippi and was an important Union victory because the Union now had control of the Mississippi River
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
500
The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
What are states' rights?
500
The scene where Tripp gets whipped after returning from finding shoes is significant because it showed the injustice that was happening, even in Union army camps. Also, it revealed to the viewer the harsh reality of slavery and gave us a glimpse into how bad Tripp's life as a slave must have been.
Explain the significance of the shoe scene in Glory.