Early America
Part II

Use the links below to answer the following questions.

1.   What was a secret codeword invented for the escape route used by southern slaves in the pre-Civil War days?

2.  Who was the greatest single conductor of the Underground Railroad?

3.  What southern general was appointed an advisor to Jefferson Davis?

4.  Whose methods and cause  raised tension that  resulted in a  barrier between the abolitionists and pro-slavery people.

5. Eli Whitney invented the ________________.
   Bonus:   The word gin is short for _________.

6.  Clara Barton's civil war work began in ________.

7.  Who established the American Red Cross in 1881?

8.  Henry Clay help settle arguments over slavery in the new territory from the war with Mexico by the ____________________________.

9.  Just after the Battle of Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862) President Lincoln issued the _____________________________________ .

10. Because of the Battle of Vicksburg, the __________ undisputed control of the Mississippi River.

11. In 1877 Hayes withdrew the remaining government troops from the South which ended _________________.

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