Abolition
Vocabulary
Black Philadelphia
American Revolutionary Era
African Societies
Grab Bag!
100

This form of abolition was favored by Northern states

What is gradual?

100

A person who supported separation from Britain was known as this

What is a Patriot?

100

This religious movement eventually banned slavery amongst its members in 1776

Who are the Quakers?

100

A person who supported the British cause was known by this name

What is a Loyalist? 

100

This resource is commonly found throughout West Africa

What is gold? 

100

This is the name for the torturous journey undertaken by an estimated 12.5 million enslaved Africans from West Africa across the Atlantic Ocean

What is the Middle Passage? 

200

Much late-18th century abolitionist writing invoked this founding document as justification for its cause

What is the Declaration of Independence? 

200
The concept of "half-freedom" originated in American colonies belonging to which European country? 

Who are the Dutch? 

What are the Netherlands? 

200

This house estate belonged to the Chew Family 

What is Cliveden? 

200

This man was the "first to die" for the Revolution in 1770

Who is Crispus Attucks?

200

This Muslim king, at one point the wealthiest man in  the world, went on an important pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324AD

Who is Mansa Musa?

200

This document urged enslaved people to escape their owners and join the Loyalist cause

What is Lord Dunmore's Proclamation? 

300

This word is a legal term for a person being given freedom

What is manumission? 

300

Hereditary and race-based are two traits of this form of bondage

What is chattel slavery?

300

This man was the wealthiest Black man in post-revolution Philadelphia

Who is James Forten?

300

This border caused controversy among American colonists before the war began

What is the Proclamation (Line) of 1763?

300

The Kingdom of Aksum was in this region of Africa

What is East? 

300

As a 15 year old, she first refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955

Who is Claudette Colvin? 

400

Throughout the colonies and later in the Southern states, "free" or "enslaved" status was traced through the status of which relative?

Who is the mother? 

400

This term describes the study of changing interpretations of the past

What is historiography?

400

The largest slave market in Philadelphia was along the banks of this river

What is the Delaware?

400

These chief ideals invoked in the Declaration of Independence were first theorized by British philosopher John Locke 

What are natural rights? 

400

This phrase, used throughout the 19th century to justify colonization, described Africa as mysterious, unknown, and backwards

What is the "Dark Continent"?

400

This agreement written into the US Constitution established a calculation for how the populations of slaveholding states would gain members in Congress

What is the Three-Fifths (3/5) Compromise?

500

The Mason-Dixon line established the boundary between free and slave state between which two states? 

What are Pennsylvania and Maryland?

500

This is the term for a religious practices that are blended from several different belief systems

What is syncretic?
What is a syncretic belief system?

500

The city was the capital of which late 18th-early 19th movement involving the movement of free Black people

What is the African Colonization Movement?

500

What was the name (and year) of the treaty that officially ended the American Revolutionary War?

What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?

500

This city in Mali was famous for its extensive libraries

What is Timbuktu? 

500

This castle on the coast of Ghana was also a well-known fort that held hundreds of enslaved Africans headed to the New World

What is Elmina?