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OHIO HISTORY: Chapter 7 Research Questions

page 117
1. What is the difference between a free state and a slave state?
2. What is a plantation?
3. What law banned slavery in Ohio?
page 118-119
4. What was the Underground Railroad?
5. What were the people called who helped runaway slaves along their way toward freedom?
6. Why do you think the slaves called the North Star and Big Dipper "guide lights?"
page 120-121
7. What is an abolitionist?
8. What law was passed in 1850 that said people in the North must help catch slaves and return them to their owners?
9. Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
page 122
10. Who was our nation's president during the Civil War?
11. How many Ohio men fought in the Civil War?
12. How did Ohio women help out during the Civil War?
page 126
13. Name 2 famous Union generals that were from Ohio.
page 127-128
14. What was the most important result of the Civil War?
15. What terrible event occurred just a few days after the Civil War ended?

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