Slavery
This term refers to a system where one person has total ownership of another, treating them as personal property or "chattel"?
Chattel Slavery
Harriet Tubman's famous nickname? (Hint: taken from a Jewish leader)
Moses
This term describes the three-sided trade route connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
The triangular slave trade
This "white gold" was the primary raw material produced on Caribbean plantations by enslaved labor?
Sugar
This 1789 autobiography by a former enslaved man provided Europeans with a firsthand account of the horrors of the Middle Passage?
Olaudah Equiano
Most enslaved people in the Americas were forced to work on these large-scale farms that specialized in a single cash crop?
Plantations
The secret network of safe houses and routes that Tubman used to lead enslaved people to the North and Canada?
The Underground Railroad
This harrowing leg of the journey involved transporting enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas?
Middle Passage
Often traded from Europe to Africa, these weapons were used by local leaders to capture more people for the trade?
Guns/Weapons
In 1839, enslaved Africans took control of this ship, eventually winning their freedom in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case?
The Amistad
These formal laws were passed in various colonies to define the status of enslaved people and take away their basic human rights?
Slave codes
Tubman's role during the Civil War where she led a raid at Combahee River, freeing over 700 people?
A spy
To maximize profit, ship captains used this "packing" method, squeezing as many people as possible into the hold?
Tight Packing
This byproduct of sugar production was shipped to New England or Europe to be distilled into rum?
Molasses
This was the most common form of "silent" resistance, where enslaved people would work slowly or break equipment to hurt plantation profits?
Sabotage
Unlike many ancient forms of slavery, the Atlantic trade was unique because it was based entirely on this physical characteristic?
Race
The state where Harriet Tubman was born into slavery before she escaped to Philadelphia?
Maryland
Most enslaved people were sold at these public events, where buyers bid on individuals as if they were livestock?
Slave auctions
These three cash crops were the main exports from the Southern American colonies back to Europe?
Tobbaco, Cotton, Rice
These communities were formed in the mountains or swamps by people who escaped slavery, most notably in Jamaica and Brazil?
Maroon Communities
This Latin phrase, meaning "that which is brought forth follows the womb," was a law ensuring that children born to enslaved mothers were also enslaved?
Partus sequitur ventrem
Tubman’s original birth name before she changed it to Harriet?
Araminta Ross
This economic theory drove European powers to use enslaved labor to extract raw materials and increase the "mother country's" wealth?
Mercantilism
These colorful items, often made of glass, were used by Europeans as a low-cost currency to purchase enslaved people in Africa?
Trade Beads
This Caribbean island saw the most successful slave revolt in history, leading to the creation of the first free Black republic in 1804?
Haiti