Underground Railroad
Name of Frederick Douglass's abolitionist paper?
What it the North Star.
Most of the cotton in the US in the Antebellum period was produced in what region?
What is the Deep South.
What percentage of whites in the South did NOT own slaves?
What is 75%.
How many slaves were held in bondage before the Civil War?
What was 4 million.
Name the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Southern cotton in the Antebellum period accounted for what percentage of the world's production of cotton?
What is 75%.
Large plantation owners accounted for what percentage of the population?
What is 4-5% of the population.
Identify either how many times Harriet Tubman traveled back to the South &/or what her nickname was?
What is some 19 times and the "Moses" of Her people.
Most runaways came from what part of the South?
What is the Upper South.
The South believed what two nations were so dependent on Southern cotton that they would support the South even in a civil war?
What are Britain and France.
Why did so many white southerners support slavery?
What is they viewed slave ownership as the path to social economic power.
What were the most common forms of resistance by slaves?
What is non violent actions such as faking illness, hiding tools, working slower etc...
After the passage of the Fugitive Slave law in 1850, true freedom for African Americans was found where?
What is Canada.
What was cotton used primarily for in the world during the pre-war period?
What is textile production.
What part of the South was most industrialized, thus had more free African Americans?
What is the Upper South (Virginia).
Punishment for slaves included, but was not limited to?
Whippings, branding, separating families, withholding food etc..
According to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, federal commissioners received how much money for declaring a runaway was a runaway?
What was $10
What state held more slaves and exported more cotton than any other in the South?
What is South Carolina.
Most Southerners feared what most of all in regards to slave ownership?
What percentage of free blacks lived in the South?
What was 6%.