Slavery Basics
What year were the first Africans brought to Jamestown?
What is 1619?
Running away from an enslaver is an example of this.
What is active resistance?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is the belief that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
What law forced many Native American tribes to move west?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
What was the abolition movement trying to end?
What is slavery?
Treating people unfairly because of their race is called this.
What is racism?
Working slowly or pretending not to understand instructions are examples of this type of resistance.
What is passive resistance?
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What are reservations?
What are pieces of land set aside for Native Americans to live on?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Which region depended heavily on enslaved labor to grow cash crops?
What is the South?
Why did many Southern states make it illegal to teach enslaved people to read and write?
What is because education could help people resist slavery or escape?
Name one state or territory the United States gained after the Mexican-American War.
What is California, Nevada, Utah, or parts of Arizona and New Mexico?
What was the Trail of Tears?
What is the forced removal of the Cherokee westward in which thousands died?
Name one strategy used by abolitionists to fight slavery.
What are newspapers, speeches, petitions, protests, or slave narratives?
Why was slavery more common in the South than the North?
What is the South's economy depended on plantation agriculture and cash crops?
Name one active form of resistance used by enslaved people.
What is running away, rebellion, arson, poisoning food, or fighting back?
What two rivers were involved in the border dispute between Mexico and the United States?
What are the Nueces River and Rio Grande?
What is a treaty?
What is an agreement between governments?
What three strategies were used by abolitionist?
What are
A.Newspapers, speeches, petitions, and public protests.
B.Slave narratives that shared firsthand experiences.
C.Underground Railroad assistance for escapees.
Slavery was a legal and political system designed to keep one group in what?
What is power and privilege?
Which form of resistance was likely most common because it could be done without drawing attention?
What is passive resistance?
How did adding new states increase tensions in the United States?
What is because each new state could change the balance of power between free and slave states?
How were the Choctaw and Cherokee removals similar?
What is both tribes were forced from their homelands and suffered during removal?
How did the abolition movement increase tension between the North and South?
What is it challenged slavery, threatened the Southern economy, and increased disagreements between the regions?