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Slavery in the US

100

this is the term that refers to a crop grown primarily for the purpose of being sold for profit

Cash Crop

200

This 1793 invention would lead to a dramatic growth in slavery in the United States

Cotton Gin

300

Nearly 1/3 of enslaved Africans who came to the Americas before 1775 went to this country

Brazil

400

This amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the USA

13th Amendment

500

People who came to early America to work for a 5-7 year period on plantations before being paid in land or money were known by this two word phrase

Indentured Servants

The Movement to End Slavery

100

The word used to describe the movement to end slavery in the US was known as this

Abolition

200

This is the two word phrase for the secret network of hiding places where people helped hide people who had escaped from slavery 

Underground Railroad

300

This was the first US state to abolish slavery

Massachusetts

400

In 1852, this famous abolitionist gave a speech where he asked "What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?"

Frederick Douglass

500

This clause in the Constitution, which gave slave owners the power to.recapture enslaved people who had escaped was later strengthened by an 1850 law.

Fugitive Slave Clause

Civil War and Reconstruction

100

This is the year that the American Civil War ended

1865

200

This was the two word term used to refer to slave-holding states that did not secede from the US

Border State

300

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution said that all persons born or naturalized in the US were this

Citizens

400

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln began this speech with the phrase "Four score and seven years ago.

Gettysburg Address

500

After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, this man replaced him as President of the United States

Andrew Johnson

Grab Bag

100

This famed female abolitionist was given credit with helping over 300 enslaved people escape

Harriet Tubman

200

This two word phrase is used to describe the system of laws passed throughout the US that stripped away the rights of citizenship from black Americans

Jim Crow

300

In 1862, this document declared all enslaved people in states in rebellion "now, henceforth, and forever free"

Emancipation Proclamation

400

In the 17th century, this was the first successful cash crop in Virginia

Tobacco

500

The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter in this southern US state

South Carolina