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100
It was April 14, 1865.
What is the date that President Lincoln was shot?
100
Known for his integrity and quick wit, this man was the first Republican presiden.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Its messengers traveled 2,000 miles within 10 days.
What is the Pony Express?
100
The woman whose shadow soldiers would kiss as she passed by with her lamp.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
100
George Eastman developed this small, easy to use camera?
What is the "Kodak"?
200
South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee
What states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America?
200
These people, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, spoke out against slavery and helped black people gain their freedom.
Who are the abolitionists?
200
This former pony express rider made a fortune providing meat for railroad workers.
Who is Buffalo Bill Cody?
200
A British preacher who founded the Salvation Army.
Who is William Booth?
200
Many of the poems written by this shy American poet were not found until after her death.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
300
This three-day battle marked the central turning point of the Civil War with a Union victory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
A well-known conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman/Moses? Who is Peg Leg Joe?
300
One of the reasons Indians fought westward expansion of the whites.
What is the killing of buffalo? What is the move of the railroad into Indian land? What is the broken promises of white leaders?
300
He developed the process of heating food for a few minutes in order to kill germs.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
300
In Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule, freed slaves traveled by night to avoid one of these dangers.
What is being arrested for vagrancy? What are night riders? Who are the slave masters? Who are former Confederate soldiers?
400
Grant was able to capture this southern city by taking control of the Mississippi River and cutting off restocking supplies from the West.
What is Vicksburg?
400
These two general met at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 to agree on terms of surrender.
Who are Generals Grant and Lee?
400
He was one of the Indian chiefs who went to battle against General George Custer.
Who is Crazy Horse? Who is Sitting Bull?
400
The first war where people could see real photographs of horrors and atrocities suffered by soldies.
What is the Crimean War?
400
This song reminded escaping slaves to look to the stars for help.
What is "Follow the Drinking Gourd"?
500
One of the ironclad ships that made its debut in the Civil War.
What is the Monitor or Merrimac?
500
Northerners who traveled to the South to work on Recontruction, and the Southerners who aided them.
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
500
A government-funded transportation project that included the famous Ten-Mile Day.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
In 1852, this American led a U.S. expedition to Japan to open trade with the isolate country.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
500
By accident, Joe almost killed me long ago, but years later he was able to rescue me.
Who is Black Beauty?