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Civil War and Reconstruction Escape Room Quiz

Hannah Ryniak

Created on September 11, 2025

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Civil war and reconstruction quiz

Horror Escape room

START

Introduction

"A ghost is trapped in this house, doomed to wander it until it regains all its memories. To help it find them, you must first overcome all the challenges and collect the missing objects in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to gettrapped yourself…"

Explore the house

Inventory

01

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Andrew Johnson

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Abraham Lincoln

02

What is the period before the Civil War known as?

Pre-war Period

Constitution Era

Antebellum Era

03

A diary or journal written during that time is known as

Primary Source

Tertiary Source

Secondary Source

04

The Freedmen's Bureau provided what to African Americans

All of the above

Plots of land

Medical Aid

This is not correct...

Find the key to continue

Continue exploring the house

Inventory

01

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by whom

John Wilkes Booth

John Adams

Frederick Douglass

George Harrison Reed

02

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe use in her book to convince many Americans that slavery was bad

Religion

Legal rules

Anger

Fear

03

Which of these reasons did NOT help the Union win the war after the Emancipation Proclamation was announced

Black men joined the Union Army

Slave workforce left

Boosted morale for Northerners

Southern women had to work

04

Which side did the border states fight for

North

South

You found a secret message

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Remember these notes and play them on the piano in the correct order

01

...Keep playing

02

...One more

03

Start over...

You found a new item for your inventory

Continue exploring the house

Inventory

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Use the magnifying glass to search for the code and then insert it into the typewriter

224

Enter the secret code

Code

Which Amendment banned slavery

01

15th Amendment

13th Amendment

10th Amendment

What was Lincoln's main goal during the war

02

Winning a second presidential term

Ending slavery

Preserving the Union

When did the Emancipation Proclamation go into effect

03

June 19, 1865

January 1, 1863

February 21, 1862

A briefcase has appeared...

It's locked...look in the inventory for something to open it

Congratulations

You have recovered all the memories of the ghost! Now it can finally rest and you can escape from the house!

Are you sure you want to exit?

You will lose all progress made so far...

Back

Exit

Oh, no. You failed...

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