Slavery Vocab 1
Slavery Vocab 2
North vs. South Vocab
100
Tobacco, rice, and cotton were all types of
What is crop?
100
A market where slaves were bought and sold
What is auction?
100
Farming
What is agriculture?
200
A person who is owned by another person
What is a slave?
200
Prejudice against a group of people because of characteristics such as their race or gender.
What is discrimination?
200
Business or manufacturing.
What is industry?
300
Someone who believed that slavery was wrong
What is an abolitionist?
300
A law that stated that even people in free states had to help return escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
A large farm where crops would be grown for profit, often by slaves.
What is a plantation?
400
The freeing of slaves
What is emancipation?
400
Also called a “station,” these were homes along the Underground Railroad where escaped slaves were welcomed.
What is a safe house?
400
The time before the Civil War.
What is antebellum?
500
The route that fugitive slaves would take to reach freedom in Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
An individual who would help people to navigate the Underground Railroad.
What is a conductor?
500
Which side had a bigger population, and thus more soldiers to draw on for the Civil War?
What is the North/Union?
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