North vs South
This word means unequal treatment of people.
What is discrimination?
This invention made cotton production much more profitable in the South.
What was the cotton gin?
Most enslaved people in rural areas worked on these.
What were farms and plantations?
This term describes the act of opposing or fighting against slavery.
What is resistance?
This tradition was sometimes used in weddings among enslaved people who could not legally marry.
What was jumping over a broomstick?
This enslaved woman from Georgia became known for her story quilts.
Who was Harriet Powers
By 1850, approximately this many African Americans lived in freedom in the United States.
What is about 500,000?
This inventor created the cotton gin in 1793.
Who was Eli Whitney?
These workers supervised enslaved people on large plantations.
Who were overseers?
Enslaved people sometimes resisted by breaking tools, damaging crops, or pretending to be sick. These were examples of this type of resistance.
What was day-to-day or quiet resistance?
Enslavers could separate enslaved families by doing this.
What was selling family members to different enslavers?
This African American leader became the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816.
Who was Richard Allen?
This formerly enslaved man traveled through the North speaking to white audiences about slavery.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
The South produced about this many bales of cotton annually by the 1860s.
What was more than 4 million bales?
About three-quarters of rural enslaved people worked in this job.
What were field hands?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom using safe houses and guides.
What was the Underground Railroad?
Enslaved people sometimes met secretly in forest clearings called these to worship.
What were hush arbors?
This African American abolitionist described how an enslaver named Edward Covey tried to control him.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
African Americans in the North faced this practice, which separated Black and white people in public places.
What is segregation?
Southern cotton production depended heavily on this forced labor system.
What was slavery?
Name two skilled jobs that enslaved people sometimes performed instead of fieldwork.
What were carpentry, blacksmithing, or sewing?
Possible other answers too ~ decide as a group.
This formerly enslaved woman returned to the South many times to guide others to freedom.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
These religious songs expressed enslaved people's faith, sorrow, and hope for freedom.
What were spirituals?
This African American cultural tradition combined African rhythms and harmonies with experiences of slavery.
What was African American music and/or spirituals?
Founded in 1853, this organization protested the unequal treatment of African Americans.
What was the National Council of Colored People?
As the demand for cotton and the price of enslaved people increased, enslavers became less willing to do this.
What was end slavery or free enslaved people?
Enslaved people often lived in crowded cabins with dirt floors, limited furniture, and these makeshift sleeping materials.
What were straw and old rags?
This 1831 uprising in Virginia led Southern states to tighten restrictions on enslaved people.
What was Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Enslaved people created this secret religious community that combined African roots with American experiences.
What was the invisible church?
This clever rabbit character in African American folktales was based on an African trickster figure.
Who was Br'er Rabbit?