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Slavery
Abolitionists
Southern Social Classes
Southern Life
The Abolitionist Movement
100
This was the name given to African-American slaves who were foremen of slave gangs.
What are Drivers?
100
This person was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This group of people endured great suffering and were treated as property.
Who are Slaves?
100
This was the South's largest cash crop and greatest export.
What is Cotton?
100
This was the name given to a series of paths leading up to the North and to Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
These white men looked after the plantation owner's slaves and land.
What are Overseers?
200
This onetime runaway slave became a famous author and was one of the most prominent members of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
These people had to carry papers with them everywhere they went and were discriminated against.
Who are Free African-Americans?
200
The South was slow to industrialize because wealthy plantation owners invested their money into these two things.
What are Slaves and Land?
200
This anti-slavery newspaper was published by Frederick Douglass.
What is the North Star?
300
This book was often used by southerners to justify slavery.
What is the Bible?
300
This slave had visions and led a rebellion that involved the murder of 58 white people.
Who is Nat Turner?
300
This group of people made up 75 percent of the Southern population.
What is the White Majority (Whites without slaves)?
300
This 1793 invention rejuvenated the institution of slavery.
What is the Cotton Gin?
300
Abolitionists along the Underground Railroad used these two primary methods to communicate help to slaves who were racing to freedom.
What is Friend of a Friend and a Candle in the Window?
400
This activity was addressed often in the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and was feared by slaves and slave families.
What are Slave Auctions?
400
This radical abolitionist was an outspoken critic of slavery and published the newspaper, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
These people made up the smallest percentage of the South's population, yet had the most political, social, and economic power.
Who are the Planter Aristocrats?
400
Much of the cotton produced in the South was exported to this country.
What is England?
400
The American Colonization Society supported moving free African-Americans to this new colony, which became a country in 1847.
What is Liberia?
500
Slaves turned to these two comforts to endure the hardships of slavery.
What are Family and Religion?
500
This abolitionist wrote the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
This social class made up the majority of slave owners.
Who are the Less Wealthy Slave Owners?
500
This term refers to the South before the Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
500
This abolitionist organization sponsored lectures, distributed pamphlets, and conducted rallies to oppose the institution of slavery.
What is the American Anti-Slavery Society?