Underground Railroad
Name of Frederick Douglass's abolitionist paper?
What it the North Star.
Most of the cotton in the US in the Antebellum period was produced in what region?
What is the Deep South.
What percentage of whites in the South did NOT own slaves?
What is 75%.
How many slaves were held in bondage before the Civil War?
What was 4 million.
Who is Harriet Tubman.
Southern cotton in the Antebellum period accounted for what percentage of the world's production of cotton?
What is 75%.
Large plantation owners accounted for what percentage of the population?
What is 4-5% of the population.
Name the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Most runaways came from what part of the South?
What is the Upper South.
The South believed what two nations were so dependent on Southern cotton that they would support the South even in a civil war?
What are Britain and France.
Why did so many white southerners support slavery?
What is they viewed slave ownership as the path to social economic power.
What was the most common forms of resistance by slaves?
What is non violent actions such as faking illness, hiding tools, working slower etc...
After the passage of the Fugitive Slave law in 1850, true freedom for African Americans was found where?
What is Canada.
Most people traveled to Texas while it was under the control of Mexico because they could get cheap land and turn a profit cultivating what?
What is COTTON.
What part of the South was most industrialized, thus had more free African Americans?
What is the Upper South (Virginia).
Punishment for slaves included, but was not limited to?
Whippings, branding, separating families, withholding food etc..
Who had the largest bounty on them for their work on the Underground Railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman.
What state held more slaves and exported more cotton than any other in the South?
What is South Carolina.
Most Southerners feared what most of all in regards to slave ownership?
According to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, federal commissioners received how much money for declaring a runaway was a runaway?
What is $10.