Life as an Enslaved Person
What were enslaved people forced to do on plantations?
What is work long hours, for free, in poor conditions?
What is an Abolitionist?
What is a person who fought to end of slavery?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
What is freed enslaved people in confederate sates?
This idea allowed settlers in certain U.S. territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
I wrote a book on the horrors of slavery that had a huge impact on the abolitionist movement? Who am I?
Where did most enslaved people in the Southern U.S. work?
What is work on farms and plantations?
Who was the woman who helped many enslaved people escape to freedom and became famous for her work on the Underground Railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Which war was fought to end slavery in the U.S.?
What is the Civil War?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while also drawing a line to divide future free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that an enslaved man could not sue for his freedom because he was considered property, not a citizen.
Who is Dred Scott?
What was the name of the secret route that helped enslaved people escape to freedom?
What is the Underground Railroad?
Who was the former enslaved person who became a powerful speaker and writer for the abolition movement?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Which side fought to keep slavery during the Civil War?
What is the Confederacy (Southern States)?
This series of laws included California entering the Union as a free state, and created the new territories of New Mexico and Utah, where settlers would decide on slavery.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, hoping to start a slave revolt, but was captured and later executed. Who am I?
Who is John Brown?
What were enslaved people forced to grow on plantations?
What is cash crops? (e.g. Tobacco, Cotton, Sugar, and Indigo).
Which famous woman gave speeches about ending slavery and also worked for women's rights?
Who is Sojourner Truth?
What year did slavery officially end in the U.S.?
What is 1865?
This law required people in the North to help return escaped enslaved people to their owners in the South, even if they were in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
I am an industrialized area with factories making manufactured goods. Society centered around economic status. What am I?
What was a common way enslaved people communicated secretly on plantations?
What is songs or secret messages?
I was the founder of The Liberator, an influential anti-slavery newspaper, and was a leading voice in the fight for immediate emancipation of enslaved people. Who am I?
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
What is Juneteenth? What is its date?
What is a holiday that celebrates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas learned they were free. What is June 19, 1865?
This term describes the violence and fighting that broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in ______ state during the 1850s, as they tried to influence the decision on slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
What does the word Antebellum mean?
What is the south prior to the Civil War?