Slave Trade
This is the continent where most slave came from
Africa
Just before the Civil War, this crop was "king"
Cotton
The term for someone opposed to slavery
Abolitionist
This president was the first to oppose slavery
Abraham Lincoln
This law required police in free states to help capture escaping slaves
Fugitive Slave Law
This is how most slaves were sold
Auction
This is the name of the very first English colony in North America to use slave labor
Jamestown
The term for the route slaves used to escape slavery
Underground Railroad
This educated former slave was a friend to Lincoln and worked to end slavery
Fredrick Douglas
This slave lost a Supreme Court decision who asked for his freedom because he had lived with his owner in a free territory
Dred Scott
This is the year the slave trade ended
1808
This founding father of the United States, and our first president owned slaves
George Washington
The most famous woman to help slaves escape to freedom
Harriet Tubman
This "Law of the Land" said a slave was 3/5 of a person
The Constitution
This political party was formed because they were opposed to slavery
Republican
Slaves were brought to North America to replace these workers
Indentured Servants
This is the name for the large farms in the South that used slave labor
Plantations
The destination for most freed slaves
Canada
This amendment to the constitution ended slavery
13th amendment
This is the term for a decision by a state to leave the United States
Secede
Most slaves on the ships had to stay in this position
lying down
This man kept control of slaves at a plantation
Overseer
The war that ended slavery
Civil War
This announcement from Lincoln ended slavery "in the states in rebellion"
Emancipation Proclamation
This is the name of the new country formed by the states that left the Union to make a new country just before the Civil War
Confederate States of America