Vocabulary
This word means to end something
What is abolish?
This region’s economy was based on trade and industry.
What is the North?
He used a lantern to guide enslaved people to freedom.
Who is John Rankin?
A secret system that helped enslaved people escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The agreement that kept free and slave states balanced.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A person who works to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This region depended on farming and enslaved workers.
What is the South?
Known as the “Father of Abolitionism.”
Who is Benjamin Lundy?
Safe places where fugitives could hide.
What are stations?
The year the Missouri Compromise was passed.
What is 1820?
A large farm where crops are grown, often using enslaved labor.
What is a plantation?
This region mostly wanted to abolish slavery.
What is the North?
He started an antislavery newspaper in Ohio after freeing enslaved people.
Who is James Birney?
People who helped guide fugitives to freedom.
What are conductors?
The free state that entered with Missouri.
What is Maine?
A person who runs away or escapes, often from the law.
What is a fugitive?
This region wanted states to decide about slavery.
What is the South?
This couple helped thousands escape and were leaders on the Underground Railroad.
Who are Levi and Catherine Coffin?
The name given to escaping enslaved people.
What are passengers?
The city where violence broke out against African Americans.
What is Cincinnati?
A group of people with similar ideas about government.
What is a political party?
This type of farm was common in the South.
What is a plantation?
A formerly enslaved man who helped over 400 people escape.
Who is John Parker?
The time of day most escapes happened for safety.
What is nighttime?
The political party that wanted to end slavery.
What is the Liberty Party?