vocabulary1
vocabulary 2
People and Places
early life
other questions
100
This vocabulary word means "property"
What is chattel?
100
This vocabulary word means "rules"
What is precepts?
100
Betsy Bailey
Who is Frederick's grandmother?
100
Frederick only saw this person 4 or 5 times in his life. She died when he was 7.
Who is his mother?
100
Frederick started a ____________ on Sundays to teach other slaves how to read.
What is a school?
200
This vocabulary word means "official permission or approval for an action.
What is sanction?
200
The vocabulary word that means "having a harmful effect"
What is pernicious?
200
Captain Anthony
Who was Frederick's first master and probably his father?
200
Slaves received a monthly allowance of this.
What is food?
200
A person who is in favor of abolishing something--such as slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
300
The vocabulary which means "clothing".
What is habiliments?
300
The vocabulary word that means "countless; extremely great number".
What is myriad?
300
Harriet Bailey
Who is Frederick's mother?
300
The substance Mr. Lloyd put on the garden fence to keep the slaves out.
What is tar?
300
The slaves only had this to sleep on.
What is a coarse blanket?
400
What vocabulary word means "deserving or causing hatrred"?
What is odius?
400
This vocabulary word means "a stick or club used as a weapon?
What is a cudgel?
400
The state where Frederick was born.
What is Maryland?
400
The reason Mrs. Auld stopped teaching Frederick how to read.
What is because it was against the law to teach a slave to read.
400
Why is September 3, 1838 a significant date for Frederick?
What is the date he escaped from slavery?
500
What vocabulary word means " stubborn; unyielding; not moved by persuasion?
What is obdurate?
500
What vocabulary word means "to make foul, dirty or unclean?
What is defile?
500
The town where Frederick and his wife settled after he ran away.
What is New Bedford?
500
Frederick gave this to the white boys who helped him learn how to read.
What is food? (bread)
500
The first job Frederick was ever assigned to do as a young slave?
What is take care of the Aulds' young son?
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