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Vocabulary
Geography
Cruelty of Slavery
Abolitionist
Miscellaneous
100
A freed slave
What is freedmen?
100
Where slavery was located.
What is the south?
100
The punishment given to slaves.
What is beatings or whippings?
100
The name for people who attempted to get rid of slavery.
What is abolitionists?
100
A farmer that shares land with another person in exchange for some of the crops.
What is a sharecropper?
200
To withdraw from the United States
What is secede?
200
The type of work that required slaves.
What is agriculture?
200
The place where slaves were sold.
What is at auctions?
200
The part of the country that did not have slavery.
What is the North?
200
When a person is loyal to the region they live over loyalty to their country.
What is sectionalism?
300
A change in a law or constitution.
What is amendment?
300
The main crop slaves worked.
What is cotton?
300
The continent where slaves were taken.
What is Africa?
300
The president of the United States that is credited with ending slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
Rule by army instead of usual civil authorities.
What is martial law?
400
The name for large farms with many slaves.
What is a plantation?
400
The number of pounds of cotton expected to be picked a day by a slave.
What is 200 pounds?
400
The governor of Texas that refuses to join the Confederacy.
Who is Sam Houston?
400
The term for the ability of states to decide whether they should have slavery or not.
What is States' Rights?
500
The period right after the Civil War when the southern states were readmitted to the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
500
Considered the center of the slave trade.
What is Louisiana?
500
The number of slaves in the U.S. by 1860.
What is 4 million?
500
The name for the series of people and houses that helped slaves in the South reach freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
The economic status of a person that would own slaves.
What is wealthy or rich?