Slavery in the US
this is the term that refers to a crop grown primarily for the purpose of being sold for profit
Cash Crop
The word used to describe the movement to end slavery in the US was known as this
Abolition
This is the year that the American Civil War ended
1865
This famed female abolitionist was given credit with helping over 300 enslaved people escape
Harriet Tubman
This 1793 invention would lead to a dramatic growth in slavery in the United States
Cotton Gin
This is the two word phrase for the secret network of hiding places where people helped hide people who had escaped from slavery
This was the two word term used to refer to slave-holding states that did not secede from the US
Border State
This two word phrase is used to describe the system of laws passed throughout the US that stripped away the rights of citizenship from black Americans
Jim Crow
Nearly 1/3 of enslaved Africans who came to the Americas before 1775 went to this country
Brazil
This was the first US state to abolish slavery
Massachusetts
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution said that all persons born or naturalized in the US were this
Citizens
In 1862, this document declared all enslaved people in states in rebellion "now, henceforth, and forever free"
Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the USA
13th Amendment
Frederick Douglass
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln began this speech with the phrase "Four score and seven years ago.
Gettysburg Address
In the 17th century, this was the first successful cash crop in Virginia
Tobacco
People who came to early America to work for a 5-7 year period on plantations before being paid in land or money were known by this two word phrase
Indentured Servants
This clause in the Constitution, which gave slave owners the power to.recapture enslaved people who had escaped was later strengthened by an 1850 law.
Fugitive Slave Clause
After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, this man replaced him as President of the United States
Andrew Johnson
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter in this southern US state
South Carolina