Vocabulary
This term means "to formally withdraw". For example, the South threatened to formally withdraw from the Union.
What is secede?
An former enslaved person and abolitionist who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriett Tubman?
This was the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean endured by enslaved people.
What is the Middle Passage?
In the South, were enslaved people viewed as human beings or as property?
Property
This system created by abolitionists hid fugitive slaves at "stations" as they tried to seek freedom.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This term means "a complete end to slavery".
What is abolition?
An American abolitionist and author who wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The scattering of enslaved Africans across the New World.
What is the African Diaspora?
The Southern economy was primary based on which industry?
(a) mining
(b) railroads
(c) textiles
(d) agriculture
(d) agriculture
Was the Underground Railroad a real railroad?
What is emancipation?
An enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia in August 1831.
Who was Nat Turner?
Approximately how many enslaved African were shipped to the Americas between 1520 and 1860?
12 million
What types of jobs were reserved for skilled workers?
Blacksmithing and carpentry
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
This term means "favoring the interests of one region over the interests of the nation".
What is sectionalism?
A former enslaved person, whose first autobiography, catapulted him to fame and invigorated the abolitionist movement.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
How many enslaved Africans died during the Middle Passage?
The South was opposed to which state joining the Union as a "free state" in 1850?
California
Which two white southern women were prominent antislavery activists in the 1830s?
Angeline and Sarah Grimke
What were strict laws that limited travel and education of enslaved people?
Slave codes
An American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance whose real name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
What did slaves fear more than physical punishment?
Separation from their families
Why did many plantation owners stop using Native Americans as slave labor on plantations?
Many died from European diseases to which they were not immune.
Which law mandated the return of escaped slaves to their owners, even in free states, and empowered federal officials to enforce it, sparking significant resistance from abolitionists?
The Fugitive Slave Act.