Slavery
What is the name of the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas?
Middle Passage.
Fear of this happening led to the enactment of slave codes in the South.
Slave revolts.
The network of safe houses and escape routes used by enslaved individuals to reach freedom in the North.
Underground Railroad
What is called to leave one's own country to settle permanently in another?
Emigration.
Who was responsible for the freedom of hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman.
How many enslaved Africans were transported from Africa to the Americas on slave ships?
10+ million Africans.
The first and only successful slave rebellion that has inspired many other slave revolts across the Americas.
Haitian Revolution.
What bill/amendment abolished slavery?
13th amendment.
What were some key places suggested as an option for the emigration of African Americans?
Africa, Upper Canada, Mexico, etc.
The abolitionist-inspired movement that fought for the rights of women.
Women's suffrage movement.
Set of laws enacted by southern colonies that restricted enslaved Africans' rights, freedom, and activities.
Slave codes.
Breaking tools, feigning illness, staging slowdowns, committing acts of arson and sabotage, etc.
Covert Resistance
A result of the rising tension between the North and Southern states due to the issue of slavery.
Civil War.
What were the arguments FOR the emigration of African Americans back to Africa?
More opportunities in Africa, less discrimination, a closer step toward ending slavery, etc.
What court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens so they could not have the rights as free people?
Dredd Scott vs Sandford.
What musical genre, rooted in African traditions, emerged as a significant cultural expression among enslaved individuals in the United States?
Negro Spirituals.
Fort Morse, Stono Rebellion, Haitian Revolution, Underground Railroad, etc.
Overt Resistance
What was the time span of the abolitionist movement?
1830-1870s
What were the arguments AGAINST the emigration of African Americans back to Africa?
Blacks had earned the right to live in the United States, it was an excuse to get rid of free blacks, it would create conflict with the native Africans, etc.
Who started the Southampton Insurrection?
Nat Turner.
Name three laws from the Black Codes of Louisiana.
ARTICLE I orders that the edict of 1615 be applied to Louisiana, and that all Jews
who may have established their religion there be expelled within three months, under
penalty of confiscation of body and property.
ARTICLE II orders that all slaves in the province be instructed and baptized in the Catholic religion.
ARTICLE III forbids the exercise of any other religion than the Catholic.
ARTICLE IV forbids the employment of any overseer who shall not be a Catholic, under penalty of confiscation of the negroes and punishment of the overseer.
ARTICLE V Orders Sundays and holidays to be regularly observed, and forbids all work by master or slaves, under penalty of confiscation of slaves and punishment of masters. The slaves, however, may be sent marketing.
ARTICLE VI forbids marriage of whites with slaves, and concubi-nage of whites and manumitted or free-born blacks with slaves, and imposes penalties.
ARTICLE VII orders to be observed, for marriages of free persons as well as of slaves, the solemnities of the ordinance of Blois and of the edict of 1639. The consent of the parents of the slave is not necessary, but only that of the master.
ARTICLE VIII forbids curates to celebrate marriages of slaves without consent of the masters, and forbids masters to force their slaves to marry against their will.
ARTICLE IX enacts that children born from the marriages of slaves shall belong to the master of the mother.
ARTICLE X enacts that if the husband be a slave and the wife a free woman, the children shall be free like their mother. If the husband be free and the wife a slave, the children shall be slaves.
What act required that escaped slaves should be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state?
Fugitive Slave Act
Name five key abolitionists.
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Martin Delany, etc.
What country did Thomas Jefferson suggest rebel slaves be emigrated to in his letter to King Rufus?
Sierra Leone.
In 1839, enslaved Africans revolted against their captors on a ship named the _.
Amistad