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The Middle Passage
What is the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure
100
Some of the more skilled jobs that some enslaved African Americans  were able to work as on larger plantations
What is blacksmithing or carpentry
100
The son of a Quaker minister, who published the first newspapers in the country devoted to the abolitionist cause
Elihu Embree
100
A document, created during the Mexican-American War, that stated that "neither slavery nor involuntary dervitude shall ever exist in any part of [the Mexican Cession] territory."
What is the Wilmot Proviso
100

Two different strategies that slaveholders would use in an attempt to encourage slaves' obedience

What is more food or better living conditions, and severe punishing

200
The scattering of enslaved Africans (who were sent all across the New World)
What is the African Diaspora
200
A few of the poor living conditions that enslaved people had to endure
What is dirt-floor cabins with few furnishings and often leaky roofs and clothing made of cheap/coarse
200
An organization - created in 1817 by a minister named Robert Finley - dedicated to establishing colonies of freed slaves in Africa
What is the American Colonization Society
200
Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country
What is sectionalism
200
A complete end to slavery
What is abolition
300
The slave uprising that occurred in South Carolina in September of 1739
What is the Stono Rebellion
300

The most violent slave revolt in the country, which occurred in 1831

What is Nat Turner's Rebellion
300

This person published an abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator, beginning in 1831

What is William Lloyd Garrison
300
A new political party developed during the presidential campaign of 1848 by antislavery northerners
What is the Free-Soil Party
300
Different things that abolitionists did to further their cause
What is speaking tours, writing pamphlets and newspaper articles, and writing abolitionist poetry and literature
400
A refuge for slaves that they considered to be a form of expression that was partially free from their slaveholders' control
What is religion
400
Strict laws that many states passed in order to further control slaves' actions
What is slave codes
400
Two white southern women who were prominent antislavery activists of the 1830s

What is Angelina and Sarah Grimké

400
To formally withdraw [from the Union]
What is seceding
400
The person who inspired Frederick Douglass to give speaking tours
What is William Lloyd Garrison
500
Some of the benefits that slaveholders provided for their slaves in order to protect their investment
What is adequate food, clothing, and shelter
500
Emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music, to express their deeply help religious beliefs
What is spirituals
500
One of the most important African American leaders of the 1800s; he escaped from slavery when he was 20 and spoke out publicly against slavery
What is Frederick Douglass
500
This allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the Mexican Cession into two territories - Utah and New Mexico
What is the Compromise of 1850
500
This former slave claimed that God had called her to travel through the United States and preach the truth about slavery and women's rights. With her deep voice and quick wit, she became legendary in the antislavery movement for her fiery and dramatic speeches
What is Sojourner Truth
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