The Big Picture
North and South
The Planter's Life
The Slaves' Life
Struggles Against Slavery
100
Both the Aztecs and Mayans enslaved the following type of people.
What are other tribes conquered in battle?
100
Fewer slaves were owned in the north because these were smaller than those in the south.
What are farms?
100
Plantation owners, or planters, and their families lived in this.
What is the "Big House?"
100
The small, rundown houses in which the slaves lived were commonly called this.
What is "slave row?"
100
The Hausa and Yoruba people came from this country.
What is Nigeria?
200
Slavery, as practiced in the Americas from 1500 on, was different from earlier slavery practices because slaves were usually chosen based on this.
What is skin color?
200
As a percentage, how many white families owned slaves?
What is 1 in 4, or 25%?
200
Fine furniture from England, crystal glasses, china dishes, and silver platters.
What were luxury items used in the homes of the planters?
200
The man most feared by the slaves on a plantation was this guy.
What is the overseer?
200
To keep slaves from communicating on ships, slave traders would do this to people who spoke the same language.
What is separate them?
300
Planters often threatened to do this to slave families in order to keep them under control.
What is splitting them up?
300
Laws known as slave codes denied these to slaves.
What are rights given to white citizens?
300
Between the courts, the government, business leaders, and the planters in Southern society, this group held the most power.
What are the planters?
300
The field slaves were at the bottom of the slave hierarchy, but this group of slaves was considered better.
Who were house slaves or skilled workers?
300
Working slowly, breaking tools, or pretending not to understand orders.
What are ways the slaves showed anger toward the planters?
400
Most slaves were involved in agricultural work on large, single-crop farms known as these.
What are plantations?
400
Two rights that were denied to slaves were these.
What are practicing their own religion, learning to read, choosing whom to marry, or owning property? (Only two needed to answer correctly.)
400
People in power in the South believed that getting rid of slavery would have this effect on the society.
What is destroy the economy?
400
Gathering to tell stories, sing songs, and maybe even plan an escape.
What did the slaves do at night?
400
Cato led this slave uprising which killed 39 colonists in South Carolina in 1739.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
500
In 1650, the slave population in the colonies was about 300. By 1671, there were 2000. In 1708, the number of enslaved people reached this number.
What is 12,000?
500
In 1655, the first slave auction took place, surprisingly, in this northern city named after its colony.
What is New York City?
500
Meats would be cooked and preserved in this small structure near the kitchen on a typical plantation.
What is the smokehouse?
500
According to a common saying amongst people in slavery, the day on the plantation ended at this time.
What is never?
500
Influenced by the teachings of John Woolman, many members of this religious group freed their slaves in the mid- to late-1700s.
What are the Quakers?
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