Foundations of Slavery
What system forced people to work without pay and treated them as property?
What is slavery?
What group of Americans was most directly affected by slavery?
Who are Black Americans?
What was Harriet Tubman's birth name?
Araminta "Minty" Ross
What terms describes actions taken by enslaved people to oppose slavery?
What is Passive or Active resistance?
What movement worked to end slavery?
What is abolition?
In what century did slavery begin to develop in the British North American colonies?
What is the 1600s?
Name one way slavery affected family life for enslaved people.
What is family separation?(or best answer)
What secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom?
What is the Underground Railroad?
Name one non-violent way enslaved people resisted slavery.
What are work slowdowns, breaking tools, or learning to read?
What laws were passed to help capture escaped enslaved people?
What are the Fugitive Slave Laws?
What 1619 event marked the beginning of African enslavement in English North America?
What is the arrival of enslaved Africans in Virginia?
What crops were commonly produced using enslaved labor in the South?
What are cotton, tobacco, rice, or sugar?
Why were Harriet Tubman’s rescue missions dangerous?
What is the risk of capture, punishment, or death?
Who led a major slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831?
Nat Turner
How did abolitionists spread their ideas?
What are speeches, newspapers, and pamphlets?
What type of source includes laws, letters, or firsthand accounts from the time of slavery?
What is a primary source?
How did slavery influence Southern politics?
What is increased power for slaveholding elites?
About how many people did Harriet Tubman help escape slavery?
What is about 300 people people directly?
Name two types of punishments inflicted on enslaved people for escaping or attempting to escape
Whipping, starvation, branding, half-hanging or death
Why did some Americans want to preserve slavery?
What are economic dependence and racial beliefs?
Which Southern economic system relied heavily on enslaved labor to grow cash crops?
What is the Cotton plantation system?
Why did enslaved people create spirituals and oral traditions?
What is to preserve culture, express resistance, and share hope?
Name one way Harriet Tubman is remembered today.
What are monuments, museums, schools, or currency recognition?
Why did slaveholders want to limit the rights of enslaved people?
What is fear of losing control and power?
How did the fight over slavery affect the future of the United States?
What is increased sectional conflict leading to the Civil War?