Cities, railroads, factories and machinery could be found in the...
What is the North?
200
What was Harriet Tubman known for?
What is helping to organize and operate the Underground Railroad setting slaves free to the North?
200
What does secede mean?
What is to leave or remove yourself from something.
200
Who led the Confederate army (who was originally asked to lead the Union army but declined because he was from the south)?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
How did the Civil War end?
What is the Confederacy surrendered to the Union?
300
What was the most important cash crop in the country?
What is cotton?
300
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What is a book that detailed the true evils and horrors of slavery written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a white woman.
300
What are "states rights"?
What is the belief that individual states should have more power over themselves than the federal government?
300
What did President Lincoln sign in 1863 that said the slaves in the Confederacy should be free?
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
300
True or False:
African Americans were still segregated after the war.
What is TRUE.
400
Which side fought with slaves making up more than 1/3 of their total army?
Who was the South?
400
Who was Frederick Douglas?
Who was a leading African American abolitionist in the north.
400
What were border states?
States that were in between free and slave states. States that allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union.
400
Where was Lincoln shot five days after the war ended?
What is Ford's Theater?
400
True or False:
Women were responsible for taking up the jobs of their husbands while they were away at war.
What is TRUE.
500
What did the North and South disagree about?
What is slavery?
500
What does abolitionist mean?
What is the belief that slavery is wrong and should be eradicated or completely erased.
500
What were the states that broke away from the United States called?
What is the Confederacy?
500
Who shot President Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
What was the 13th Amendment and why was it so important?
What is it granted freedom to ALL African Americans, slavery was over. It was important because it applied to all African Americans, there was no more Confederacy.