Famous People
I was born into slavery, but escaped. I became one of the most successful conductors on the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War, I worked as a spy for the Union. After the abolition of slavery, I fought for women's suffrage.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This amendment outlawed slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
Abraham Lincoln's document freed enslaved people, but only those living in states that had seceded from the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Most of the people enslaved in the United States were in which region?
What is the south?
Name at least two ways that enslaved people resisted their capture during the Middle Passage.
Refusing to eat, jumping from the ship, overthrowing their captors (others?)
Who is Dred Scott?
This clause of the Constitution explained how to count enslaved people; it gave southern states more representatives in Congress.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
This policy said that enslaved people who were captured in the north must be returned to their enslavers in the south.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Most of the people who were enslaved in the Americas came from this region of Africa.
What is West? (or Northwest?)
When an enslaved person learned to do this, it was often in secret. Sometimes, they used the Bible to do it since is was the only resource available.
What is learn to read?
I was a British General during The Revolutionary War. I wrote a proclamation offering to let enslaved people free if they came to fight on the British side.
Who is Lord Dunmore?
The 14th amendment gives American citizens these two important things.
Many states passed laws that required labor contracts for Black farmers, leading many freed people into this farming cycle of poverty.
What is sharecropping?
Name three cash crops that enslaved people were forced to farm (one from the Carribbean, two from the American south)
Rice, tobacco, sugar, cotton
John Brown brought his group of rebels to this federal weapons storage facility, located in West Virginia
What is Harper's Ferry?
I'm famous for being a leader in the abolition movement. I could speak from experience, because I was enslaved as a child. I learned to read and write against the rules. My autobiography and public speeches helped persuade people to join the abolition movement.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case set up the policy of "Separate but Equal," which opened the door for Jim Crow Laws and other types of discrimination.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is chattel?
This enslaved man led a rebellion, killing almost 60 white people; he and his fellow rebels were eventually executed.
Who is Nat Turner?
I was a white woman who built a school for Black girls in Connecticut. Black families sought out my school, but I was put in jail for educating Black people.
Who is Prudence Crandall?
These laws, passed by states and towns, kept Black citizens from exercising their freedom after the Civil War
What are Black Codes?
Name TWO places enslaved people could escape to and actually be free.
Canada, Mexico, Spanish territories.
What was the difference between slavery in Africa and slavery in the Americas?
Slavery in the Americas came to be based on race and it was permanent and multi generational, where as slavery in Africa was based on other statuses: being in debt or being a prisoner of war.