Amplify Knowledge 8 The U.S. Civil War

True or false? A broken pencil has great value when you are trying to take a test.

True or false? When a team loses a game, they experience a defeat.

True or false? In slavery, the enslaved person is paid for their work.

I commanded the Union Army.

True or false? The Emancipation Proclamation said that slavery would be abolished in the Confederate states.

I was a spy for the Union Army because I knew the roads and the secret trails around Maryland and Pennsylvania.

I surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox.

I was an enslaved African who escaped to Pennsylvania to gain my freedom.

I wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.

True or false? The northern economy depended on factories and the southern economy depended on growing crops.

True or false? President Lincoln used many advisors to help him make desicions.

True or false? Plantations are large farms where crops are raised.

I commanded the Confederate Army.

I was president during the U.S. Civil War.

True or false? Rebels were the Union soldiers.

I founded the American Red Cross.

True or false? A civil war is a war between different groups of people within one country.

True or false? A balloon will pop if it continues to expands too far.

I helped wounded soldiers get the medical supplies and care they needed.

I was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

True or false? The Confederacy was the collection of northern states that did not secede from the United States.

True or false? Abolitionists wanted to keep slavery.

True or false? The Union was made up of northern states that did not secede from the United States.

True or false? The issue of slavery was one of the main causes of the U.S. Civil War.

True or false? The Yankees fought for the Union.