The Atlantic Slave Trade and Its Impact
This group was decimated by diseases like smallpox and typhus brought by Europeans to the New World.
Who are Native Americans?
Some enslaved people were trained in trades or crafts, allowing them to be rented out by their owners. These enslaved workers were known as this.
What are skilled laborers or craftsmen?
This early American leader was the president of the first antislavery society in America.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This compromise, presented by Henry Clay, was designed to keep the balance between free and slave states in 1850.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This man, known as "The Great Compromiser," introduced the Compromise of 1850 to maintain the balance between free and slave states.
Who is Henry Clay?
This term refers to the horrific voyage across the Atlantic Ocean endured by enslaved Africans.
What is the Middle Passage?
These laws restricted the rights and freedoms of enslaved people, often making it illegal for them to learn to read or write.
What are slave codes?
This religious group was among the first to oppose slavery on religious grounds.
Who are the Quakers?
This 1850 law made it a crime to help runaway slaves and was part of the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This law, part of the Compromise of 1850, required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves and punished those who helped them.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
In 1510, this European government legalized the sale of enslaved people in its colonies.
In 1510, this European government legalized the sale of enslaved people in its colonies.
This man led a violent rebellion in 1831, resulting in the deaths of about 60 white people and sparking stricter slave codes.
Who is Nat Turner?
William Lloyd Garrison published this abolitionist newspaper
What is The Liberator?
This political party formed to support abolition when the major parties couldn’t agree on slavery.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
he Compromise of 1850 allowed for this controversial practice in Utah and New Mexico territories, letting residents decide the issue of slavery themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
Approximately this number of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas between the 1520s and 1860s.
What is 12 million?
At this type of event, enslaved people were bought and sold, often separating families.
What is a slave auction?
This former slave and powerful orator published the abolitionist newspaper, The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The attempted rescue of this Virginia fugitive slave from a Boston jail led to violent reactions from abolitionists.
Who is Anthony Burns?
As part of the Compromise of 1850, this state was admitted to the Union as a free state, upsetting the balance of power between slave and free states.
What is California?
This term describes the spread of Africans and their culture across the Americas due to the slave trade.
What is the African Diaspora?
Some enslaved people with special skills were allowed to do this, potentially leading to their eventual freedom.
What is renting out their services and saving money to buy their freedom?
Elihu Embree published the first newspaper devoted entirely to abolition. What was its name?
What is The Emancipator?
This famous antislavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe sold over 2 million copies and stirred public opinion against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This part of the Compromise of 1850 ended the slave trade, but not slavery itself, in the nation's capital.
What is the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.?