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new jersey civil war
Unit 3 Lesson 1 New jersey during the civil war
Question | Answer |
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emancipate | free enslaved persons |
helped enslaved people escape along a system of secret routes | abolitionists |
system of secret routes | underground railroads |
where some secret routes led to | Canada |
a place where runaway slaves hid | stations |
African American who ran a station in Philadelphia where ranaways could rest before crossing the Delaware River | William Still |
Quaker who offered shelter in NJ to runaway slaves | Abigail Goodwin |
people who led runaway slaves to safety | condutors |
escaped slave who risked her life as a conductor | Hariet Tubman |
approximate number of people Harriet Tubman led to freedom | more than 300 |
where Harriet Tubman worked in 1852 | hotel in Cape May |
what is a civil war | a war between two groups in the same country |
type of or name of conflict between Northern and Southern states in 1861 | civil war |
main reason for civil war in 1861 | slavery |
states known as slave states (southern or northern) | southern states |
states known to be against slavery | northern states |
year Abraham Lincoln was elected president | 1860 |
number of slave states that seceded (or left) the US | 11 |
name of country comprised of the 12 states that seceded from the US | Confederate States of America or the Confederacy |
4 states that allowed slavery but chose not to secede | Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri |
when the civil war began | April 12, 1861 |
who confederate troops fired upon | Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The troops were forced to surrender |
who would soon fight to save the union after the civil war began | New Jersey |
what is a border state | states that allowed slavery but chose not to secede from the US |
who thought Lincoln would end Slavery | southerners |
who depended on the work of enslaved people | southerners |
what is a free state | states against slavery (northerners) |
was the United States of America referred to as the Union or the Confederacy | Union |