Ch 10: Division & Reunion

Question 1

What invention did Eli Whitney invent?

Answer 1

Cotton Gin

Question 2

Who were the people who worked to make slavery illegal?

Answer 2

Abolitionists

Question 3

What was the compromise made in 1820 admitting Missouri to the Union and establishing law concerning the admission of new slave states?

Answer 3

Missouri Compromise

Question 4

What was the secret network of escape routes and hiding places between the Southern states and Canada?

Answer 4

Underground Railroad

Question 5

Who was the 16th President?

Answer 5

Abraham Lincoln

Question 6

Why did Southern planters begin owning more slaves, and how did Northerners respond to the growing number of slaveholders in the South?

Answer 6

Explain to Mom or Dad

Question 7

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

Answer 7

Battle for Fort Sumter

Question 8

Who was the black statesman who helped President Lincoln recruit blacks to fight for the Union?

Answer 8

Frederick Douglass

Question 9

What was Lincoln’s announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any states fighting against the North?

Answer 9

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 10

Who was the primary leader of Union troops?

Answer 10

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 11

Who was the primary leader of Confederate troops?

Answer 11

Robert E. Lee

Question 12

What battle won by the North was the turning point in the Civil War?

Answer 12

Gettysburg

Question 13

What was the importance of the Battle of Vicksburg?

Answer 13

The Union controlled the Mississippi River and cut the South in two

Question 14

In what town did Lee surrender to Grant?

Answer 14

Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia

Question 15

Who shot Lincoln?

Answer 15

John Wilkes Booth

Question 16

What is the motto of the US?

Answer 16

In God We Trust

Question 17

Who founded the American Red Cross?

Answer 17

Clara Barton

Question 18

What was the mail route between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California?

Answer 18

Pony Express

Question 19

What was the railroad that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, and what were the two railroad companies that worked together to connect the East to the West?

Answer 19

Transcontinental Railroad

Union Pacific Company and Central Pacific Company

Question 20

How did the Transcontinental railroad benefit people in the East? In the West?

Answer 20

Explain to Mom or Dad

Question 21

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute and said, “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

Answer 21

Booker T. Washington

Question 22

Who was the botanist who found 118 uses for the sweet potato?

Answer 22

George Washington Carver

Question 23

What two ships fought in the first battle between ironclads?

Answer 23

Merrimac and Monitor

Question 24

What was the location where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed?

Answer 24

Promontory Point, Utah

Question 25

Who was Lee’s most valuable assistant and one of the greatest military heroes of the Civil War?

Answer 25

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Question 26

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 26

a famous leader of the Underground Railroad, who was an escaped slave herself

Question 27

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 27

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 28

Who was Sojourner Truth?

Answer 28

a freed black woman who was an ardent abolitionist and traveled throughout the North to speak out against slavery

Question 29

What was the capital of the Confederate States during the majority of the Civil War?

Answer 29

Richmond, VA