Getting Started
these sisters, Sarah and Angelina, became two of the leaders in the early 19th century call for both greater rights for women and an end to slavery
Who are the Grimke sisters?
the movement to outlaw slavery in the United States was called the _____ Movement
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
this invention greatly increased the speed and efficiency of processing cotton
What is the cotton gin?
he invented the machine that separated the seeds from the cotton fibers
Who is Eli Whitney?
this is the MAIN reason that nearly all southerners defended the slave system
What is it essential to the southern economy?
these individuals were not allowed to fully participate at an anti-slavery convention in London
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrecia Mott?
the name given to the varied paths that marked escape routes for slaves looking to escape from the South and the many men and women who aided them
What is The Underground Railroad?
in the context of the history of our nation, antebellum means this
What is "pre-Civil War"?
this person wrote an influential autobiography about life as a slave
Who is Frederick Douglass?
this biblical story tells of how the ancestry of one individual would be slaves to the rest of mankind
What is The Curse of Ham?
in the context of our current studies, a fugitive was this
What is a runaway slave?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
the first shots of the American Civil War were fired in this year
What is 1861?
this person had a large bounty placed for his/her capture - the largest reward ever offered up to that point in our nation's history
Who is Harriet Tubman?
these two ancient societies featured slavery
What is Greece and Rome?
slaves often communicated in this way to relay messages to each other about how to escape
What is through song (slave spirituals)?
crossing this WEST of the Appalachian Mountains marked the point of freedom in the North
What is the Ohio River?
two ways in which the South was economically dependent on the North o Europe
What is the South bought almost all its manufactured goods from them, the South borrowed money from their banks, the South sold nearly all its cotton to them
this person organized the first formal anti-slavery society in the United States
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Susie gets a D on her exam, but feels better about herself because almost all of her classmates failed the exam
What is "you can always feel better about yourself as long as you have someone below you"? (poor whites and small farmers were never the lowest in society - even they had the slaves to kick around)
these were two symbols used to identify a "safe house" for runaway slaves on their escape routes to the North
What is a lantern in the window and a hitching post shaped into a slave holding a lantern?
A portion of this book told of the escape of the slave Eliza with her child
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
the impact of the cotton gin is best exemplified by looking at the change in total production of cotton in the South - in 1800 the South produced _____ bales of cotton and in 1860 it produced _____ bales of cotton
Wat is 6,000 bales in 1800 and 2 million bales in 1860?
the names of two influential anti-slavery newspapers AND the publishers of each
What are The Liberator (Garrison) and The North Star (Douglass)
Southern whites claimed the use of slavery was preferable to the _____ slavery that many northern whites were subject to
What is "wage slavery"? (northern factory workers were basically slaves to the factory system - not valued by owners as individuals and seen as easily replaceable