TEST: THURSDAY 3/3
Study Guide: Slavery
1. William Lloyd Garrison was a
prominent abolitionist that started a newspaper called the Liberator.
2. It was illegal to teach slaves to
read and write so they did not learn ideas about freedom and equality.
3. Frederick Douglass learned to read
from his owner’s wife and then in secret.
4. Empathy – understand, share feelings
5. Emancipate – free
6. Frederick Douglass escaped to the
North by disguising himself as a sailor.
7. Frederick Douglass never knew his
father.
8. Nat Turner killed 60 men, women, and
children from slave owning families.
9. Slavery has existed since the dawn of
civilization.
10.Plantations – large farms in the
South that had a large number of slaves
11.The 13th Amendment
abolished slavery.
12.If a plantation owner killed an
enslaved laborer, the owner would face no legal punishment.
13.South: cotton
produced by slave labor, four million enslaved African Americans, crime to
teach slaves to read and write, number of slave rebellions happened,
plantations, agriculture
14.North:
immigrants, manufacturing, factories, most states ended slavery, there was
still some prejudice against African Americans
15.Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton – organized the Seneca Falls Convention to discuss the rights of women
16.Sojourner Truth – former slave who
traveled the country giving speeches in support of abolition and women’s rights
17.Harriet Tubman – former slave who
became the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
18.Sarah and Angelina Grimke – sisters,
daughters of a plantation owner, were the first women to speak publicly about
the abolitionist cause
19.Dred Scott Decision – said slaves
were property
20.Secede – state leaving the Union
21.Seneca Falls Convention – first convention
held to discuss the rights of women
22.Missouri Compromise – divided the
United States into free and slave states
23.Confederate States of America – new country
formed by states that seceded the Union
24.Compromise of 1850 – California was
admitted as a free state, the North had to follow the Fugitive Slave Law
25.Kansas-Nebraska Act – Kansas and
Nebraska decided for themselves to have slavery or not
26.Abolitionist – someone who wanted to
end slavery
27.States’ rights – each state should be
allowed to make its own decisions about most issues
28.Underground railroad – system of
secret routes that escaping slaves followed to freedom
29.Fugitive Slave Law – required police
in free states to help capture escaping slaves
30.Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s
Cabin.
31.Jefferson Davis was the President of
the Confederate States.
32.Passengers – slaves
33.Conductors – people who guided,
transported
34.Stations – places where slaves hid
along the way
35.Stationmasters – people who fed and
sheltered the slaves
36.Railroad tickets – slips of paper
with names of families that would help escaping slaves
37.90 – number of miles it took Harriet
Tubman to reach freedom in the North
38.Harriet Tubman’s nickname was Moses.
39.Harriet Tubman led 300 slaves to
freedom.
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