Slavery Basics
Slavery is when people are forced to do this without getting paid or having freedom.
What is work?
Slaves who ran away tried to get to this part of the U.S., where slavery was not allowed.
What is the North?
This event, fought between the North and South from 1861 to 1865, helped end slavery in the U.S.
What is the Civil War?
This continent was the main place where most enslaved people were taken from during the transatlantic slave trade.
What is Africa?
This was the main crop that enslaved people worked on in the Southern United States.
What is cotton?
This country had slavery for hundreds of years and fought a war that helped end it.
What is the United States?
This secret group of people and places helped slaves escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1865, officially ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This country was the first to end slavery in 1834.
What is the United Kingdom?
This U.S. president signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the Confederate states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This group of people was mostly forced into slavery in the U.S.
Who are Africans or African Americans?
Some slaves escaped by traveling at night and following this in the sky.
What is the North Star?
This document, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declared that all slaves in the Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This country, located in the Caribbean, was the first to have a successful slave revolt and become an independent nation.
What is Haiti?
This group of people in the U.S. were most often enslaved to work in fields and homes.
Who are African Americans?
Slaves were often made to work on these types of large farms.
What are plantations?
This was a special document that said slaves in the South were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This group of people worked to end slavery in the United States and in other parts of the world.
What is the abolitionist movement?
Slavery still exists in some parts of the world today, and it is often called this.
What is human trafficking?
This law, passed in 1850, said that runaway slaves had to be returned to their owners, even in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Many slaves tried to escape and find this.
What is freedom?
This big war helped bring an end to slavery in the U.S.
What is the Civil War?
This famous speech by Abraham Lincoln helped persuade people to support ending slavery in the U.S.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Enslaved people were brought to the Americas mostly from these areas in Africa, known for their capture during the transatlantic slave trade.
What is West Africa?
The 1820 law that divided the U.S. into areas where slavery was legal and illegal was called this.
What is the Missouri Compromise?