1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Map Skills Civil War LandGovernmentPlaces

2. An imaginary line that is halfway between the N. and S. Poles

3. What is the equator?

4. The relationship between the distance shown on a map and the real distance

5. What is a scale?

6. A map that shows the kind of things that are made or grown in an area

7. What is a product map?

8. A map that shows landforms

9. What is a physical map?

10. Imaginary lines on a map or globe that measure the distance E or W of the Prime Meridian

11. What is longitude?

12. President of the U. S. during the Civil War

13. Who is Abraham Lincoln?

14. The secret route that slaves used to escape to freedom in the North

15. What is the Underground Railroad?

16. A slave who escaped and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, returning to the South 19 times

17. Who is Harriet Tubman?

18. Leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War

19. Who is Robert E. Lee?

20. President of the Confederate States of America

21. Who is Jefferson Davis?

22. Large areas of flat or nearly flat land

23. What are plains?

24. The low, rounded mountains found in the eastern United States

25. What are the Appalachian Mountains?

26. The height of land above seal level

27. What is elevation?

28. A low, bowl-shaped area of land that is almost completely surrounded by land

29. What is a basin?

30. A method of mining where huge power shovels are used to dig out ore

31. What is open-pit mining?

32. A written plan of government

33. What is a constitution?

34. The lawmaking branch of government

35. What is Congress or the Legislative Branch?

36. A government that is run by the people it governs

37. What is a democracy?

38. The branch of government headed by the President; it sees that laws are carried out

39. What is the Executive Branch?

40. The rights of all people to be treated equally under the law

41. What is civil rights?

42. A large farm which used slaves as workers

43. What is a plantation?

44. A place ruled by another country

45. What is a colony?

46. A word used to describe the edge of a settlement

47. What is a frontier?

48. The place in Pennsylvania where Washington’s troops spent a long harsh winter

49. What is Valley Forge?

50. A place in New York Harbor where immigrants had to be approved before entering the U. S.

51. What is Ellis Island?