People
Female Underground Railroad conductor who helped some 300 slaves escape to the North; never lost a passenger
Whois Harriet Tubman?
The slave ship on which slaves stage a successful mutiny
What is the Amistad?
Changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans
What is domestication?
The continent where the first modern humans appeared
What is Africa
Leader of the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history
Who is Nat Turner?
Born the son of a slave woman and a father rumored to be his master, this abolitionist wrote a famous slave narrative.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
One of the world’s oldest civilizations, ruled by the pharaohs
What is Egypt?
The act of freeing a slave is known as ____
What is manumission?
The region from which the vast majority of slaves were shipped to the Americas
What is West Africa?
The election of this man as president led to the secession of the southern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A young slave woman who became the first African American poet to be published
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this novel led many Americans to join the antislavery movement.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The first West African empire, known as the kingdom of gold
What is Ghana?
The ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa from 1312 to 1337 who helped spread Islam through the empire.
Who is Mansa Musa?
A militant abolitionist who led a raid against the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
Greatest black scientist of the colonial period
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
In this court case, an enslaved African-American man in the United States unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens.
What was the Dred Scott case?
The spread of African culture throughout the Americas and the world is known as ____________
What is African diaspora?
A Southern state which was home to a large population of escaped slaves
What is Florida?
Slave who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their exploration of the Louisiana Territory
Who is James Beckwourth?
Black sailor who was killed in the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Attucks?
The goal of this movement was to resettle Black Americans in Africa
What was the goal of the colonization movement?
This religious group formed the first antislavery societies in the United States.
Who are the Quakers?
African-American Abolitionist who published a controversial pamphlet ("Appeal....to the Colored Citizens of the World") calling on African Americans to rise up against slavery.
Who is David walker?
Underground Railroad conductor who, along with his wife, helped 2,000 slaves escape
Who is Levi Coffin?