Underground Railroad
Who was the escaped slave who helped others escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Cash crop definition
Very profitable crops grown on plantations
Who was Nat Turner?
Enslaved individual, executed for his beliefs, murdered people
Flogging definition
Whipping of enslaved individuals
Negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution
Child labor, overcrowding in cities, overpopulation
Network system that helped people escape to freedom
Underground Railroad
South
Abolitionist definition
Someone who fights against slavery
Define Industrial Revolution
Moving from people power to machines
What did slave auctions do to families?
Split them up
Risked their lives to guide groups of fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad
Conductors
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
What were slave codes?
Laws designed to restrict the daily life of enslaved individuals
Uncle Tom's Cabin did what?
Talked about the horrors of slavery
What was Harriet Tubman's code name?
Moses
Stations
How did physically demanding work affect slaves on Southern Plantations?
Permanent disabilities, infections, death
Forms of protest slaves utilized on plantations
Feigning ignorance, noncompliance, nonviolent protest
Crop that becomes the dominant cash crop in the South?
Cotton
Where were people on the Underground Railroad escaping to?
Northern States or Canada
BONUS: Define suffrage
The right to vote
BONUS: Define Emancipation
Freedom for all enslaved people
BONUS: How did Moses Grandy get his freedom?
Bought his way out
BONUS: Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
BONUS: What was Harriet Tubman's real name?
Araminta Ross