Abolitionist
Abolitionist
What is a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery?
The 9th President of the United States whose family was one of Virginia's wealthiest slave owning families
Who is William Henry Harrison?
The year in which the original Fugitive Slave Act passed
What is 1793?
Why was smallpox so deadly?
It was deadly for many reasons, but because it spread through molecules in the air, and it took two weeks for symptoms to show, but the infected person was contagious even when asymptomatic.
What court case upheld state-imposed Jim Crow laws?
Plessy v. Ferguson (separate but equal)
When the abolitionist movement began
What is 1830?
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe raised support for what?
The abolition movement
It allowed owners of enslaved people to search for escaped slaves in free states and bring them back to their owners. It allowed, essentially, bounty hunters.
Currently, smallpox is the only known human disease to be what?
What were some areas of daily life where Jim Crow laws discriminated against African Americans? Give three examples!
Segregation in all public places. Interracial marriage was forbidden. Black people could not vote, purchase land, or hold jobs.
Jobs that slaves would be required to do other than working in the plantations (name two)
What is a blacksmith, carpenter, shoemaker, baker, or tradesmen?
A convention that many men and women who were a part of the abolitionist movement attended
What is the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848? -- regarded as the first woman's rights convention
What kind of penalty would a person face is they were caught aiding a slave fugitive?
They could be fined up to $1000 and jailed up to six months.
On average, out of every 10 people with smallpox, how many would survive? AND what were those people often recommended (and sometimes ordered!) to do?
Seven, take care of others suffering from the virus.
What are three potential consequences people would face if they tried to defy Jim Crow laws?
Arrest, fines, jail sentences, violence, death
What was the cotton gin?
A machine that pulls cotton fibers apart much quicker than manual separation. The cotton gin caused the cotton industry to boom.
The act that required all escaped enslaved people be returned to their owners
What needed to happen for a slave fugitive to be "captured"?
Not much - the capturer only had to orally verify the person was a runaway slave.
What vaccinations were available for smallpox?
There was no official vaccine until 1796, but there were methods that people used earlier to try and minimize the symptoms an infected person would have.
When did Jim Crow laws start?
1865
How did the cotton gin affect slavery?
Although the cotton gin separated the fibers faster than a human could, more slaves were needed to grow and pick the cotton.
Enslaved people of Texas sided with Mexico, which had abolished slavery in 1829, during which Revolution?
What was the punishment for killing an insubordinate slave?
What were some of the ways people would try to gain immunity or minimize the symptoms of the disease if they were to get it?
Blowing scabs up the nose, taking pus from scabs and putting it on the skin of healthy people, touching fabric that had been touched by an infected person.
What prompted Plessy v. Ferguson? In other words, who was charged and for what?
The state of Louisiana prosecuted Homer Plessy because he would not leave a railroad passenger car designated for white people. Plessy was 1/8 black, 7/8 white.