The Triangular Trade and Life as a Slave
What was the name of the trade route that brought enslaved people from Africa to the Americas while sending sugar and tobacco to Europe?
Triangular Trade
Which abolitionist founded the first African American newspaper in the U.S., called Freedom’s Journal?
Samuel Cornish
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
How did women in New York help to change the voting laws (the Suffrage Movement)?
They organized groups and meetings to obtain equal rights for women.
How did slaves get from Africa to America?
They were kidnapped and brought to America in exchange for goods as part of the Triangular Trade.
Who was the famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad who helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
It made it illegal to help slaves escape the south.
Choose two rights that women did NOT have during the 1700s and 1800s.
Travelling
Voting
Getting Married
Owning Property
Voting
Owning Property
Why was the trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas specifically called the "Triangular Trade"?
It was given this name because the path the ships traveled resembled the shape of a triangle.
Name the abolitionist who published a newspaper called The Liberator and helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society
William Lloyd Garrison
What did abolitionists do in response to the Fugitive Slave Act?
They continued to help slaves on the Underground Railroad.
Which amendment to the Constitution, signed in 1920, finally gave all citizens the right to vote regardless of gender?
The 19th Amendment
Once they arrived in the Americas and survived the journey, what happened to the enslaved people?
They were traded for goods and treated as property with no rights.
Who is an abolitionist that we learned about?
Frederick Douglass
George Washington
General Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglass
Why was the Civil War fought?
the United States was divided over several issues, including slavery.
Which two women formed the National Women’s Suffrage Association in 1869?
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What was the primary cause of death for many enslaved people during the long trip across the ocean?
Many people died of disease before the trip was over.
Define abolitionist.
Someone who wanted to end slavery.
Why was Abraham Lincoln important to the slavery cause?
He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves.
What was the name of the famous document read at the Seneca Falls Convention that declared "all men and women are created equal"?
The Declaration of Sentiments