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100

A large farm in the southern United States where crops like cotton, tobacco, and rice were grown, often using enslaved workers?

Plantations

100

If something is very important to you, it is something that you really ______.

Value

100

I was president during the Civil War

Lincoln

100

The secret song that helped people escape from slavery by guiding them north to freedom

Follow the Drinking Gourd

100

The month that the United States celebrates Memorial Day, which honors soldiers who died in wars like the Civil War

May

200

The system where people are forced to work for others without pay and are treated as property

Slavery

200

When you want to make something bigger or grow it, you ______ it.

Expand

200

I commanded the Confederate Army

General Lee

200

The secret network of people and safe places that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

Underground Railroad

200

The animal was often used as a symbol of the Union army during the Civil War 

Eagle

300

The name of the war fought between the Northern states (the Union) and the Southern states (the Confederacy)

The Civil War

300

If people are having a disagreement about something, they are talking about a big ______.

Issue

300

I was a conductor on the underground railroad

Harriet Tubman

300

People who worked to end slavery and fight for the freedom of enslaved people

Abolitionists

300

The famous woman who worked as a nurse during the Civil War and later started the American Red Cross

Clara Barton

400

Term was used to describe the soldiers and people who fought for the Southern states during the Civil War?

Rebels

400

Who are the people that help leaders by giving them advice and ideas?

Advisors

400

I commanded the Union Army

General Grant

400

Order from President Abraham Lincoln that freed enslaved people in the Confederate states during the Civil War

Emancipation Proclamation

400

The state was the last to join the Union after the Civil War 

Hawaii

500

Nickname was given to the soldiers and people from the Northern states during the Civil War?

Yankees

500

When one side loses in a battle or fight, they experience ______.

"What is defeat?"

500

I helped wounded soldiers get medical supplies and care they needed

Clara Barton

500

Imaginary line that separated the Northern free states from the Southern slave states

Mason-Dixon Line

500

The type of pet President Lincoln have in the White House that he named Jack

Turkey