CKLA Domain 9: US Civil War

Question 1

This was the name of the imaginary line that divided the US into the North and South.

Accepted Answer

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 2

Some people were worried about losing states' rights. This meant....

Accepted Answer

They could not choose to be a free state or a slave state.

Question 3

I was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. I helped over 300 slaves reach freedom.

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 4

I was the President of the Confederate States of America.

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 5

I surrendered to U S Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia to end the US Civil War.

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 6

I was the woman who wrote in her journal about the bombardment of Ft. Sumter.

Accepted Answer

Mary Chestnut

Question 7

They called me the "Angel of the battlefield." I started the American Red Cross.

Accepted Answer

Clara Barton

Question 8

This was the nickname given to the Union soldiers.

Accepted Answer

Yankees

Question 9

Many people thought this paper abolished slavery, but they were wrong.

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 10

My home was Virginia. I could not fight against it, so I became the Confederate General.

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 11

I was the President at the time of the US Civil War. I didn't want war.

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 12

I was the little girl whose job it was to keep the master's baby from waking up in the night.

Accepted Answer

Minty

Questions 12