The percentage of white southerners who owned no slaves.
What is 75%?
100
My name is James Oglethorpe, and I founded this colony, which initially banned slavery, but made it legal 17 years later.
What is Georgia?
100
We wanted to abolish slavery.
What are abolitionists?
100
This term describes the south before the Civil War.
What is the Antebellum South?
200
I edited the North Star!
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
The international slave trade was abolished during this year.
What is 1808?
200
In contrast to most southern states that relied mostly on cotton, this state relied on tobacco.
What is North Carolina?
200
What is one aspect of slavery?
Compulsory Labor
Complete Ownership
Can be bought/sold
200
How did slaves practice covert resistance?
Feigning Incompetence
Petty Theft
Foot Dragging
300
After reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin," I joked that a little lady by the name of Harriet Beecher Stow started the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Only 1% of southerners owned more than this many slaves.
What percentage of southerners owned MORE than 50 slaves?
300
This big state was admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
300
This invention increased the efficiency of cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
300
I supervise other slaves.
What is a slave driver?
400
I am a white abolitionist who led a revolt against slavery. I am also famous for my part in "Bleeding Kansas," where I attacked a pro-slavery settlement in the Kansas territory.
Who is John Brown?
400
The slave trade was banned in the British Empire in this year.
What is 1807?
400
This state had the highest proportion of slaves in the north.
What is New York?
400
I am a type of worker who works for a fixed period of time.
What is an indentured servant?
400
I wrote "Incidents from the Life of a Slave Girl."
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
500
A slave himself, he was convicted, hanged, and skinned for leading a slave rebellion in Virginia.
What is Nat Turner?
500
These laws legalized the act of recapturing slaves back to bondage - even when these slaves were free and lived in the north.
What are the Fugitive Slave Acts?
500
Farming tobacco was introduced to this colony in 1606 and saved it from economic collapse.
What is Jamestown?
500
President Pierce signed this document, which allowed residents to choose whether or not their territory would be a free or slave state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
This famous boat rebelled and sailed to New York. The people on this boat were later freed by the Supreme Court under international agreements against the slave trade.