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Yeoman

Owners of small farms

Spirituals

Emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music to express religious belief

Slave codes

Laws relating to slavery

William Lloyd Garrison

He published an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator and also helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society

Angelina & Sarah Grimke

Two white southern sisters who were anti-slavery activists

American Anti-Slavery Society

It’s members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans

Harriet Tubman

The most famous and daring conductor on the underground railroad

Fredrick Douglass

Escaped slavery and went on to become one of the most important African American leader of the 1800s. Also known for his anti slavery speeches

Sojourner Truth

Former slave who traveled the country giving anti-slavery and women’s rights speeches

Slaves were uneducated because…

Laws in most states prohibited slaves being taught

What part of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin separated green seeds from fibers

the teeth

Many southern states and cities passed laws to limit the rights of freedom slaves because…

Southern citizens feared the influence free slaves would encourage slave rebellions

The main problem with the production of tobacco before the 1840’s was…

Tobacco needed to be dried before shipping

In the first half of the 1800’s, 1/3 of white southern families had…

slaves

One duty of a planter’s wife is to…

supervise slaves within the plantation household

Wealthy white southerners justified the institution of slavery through…

Religion - God created some people to rule over others

Free African Americans in the 1800s could…

Engage in business transactions

The difference between house slaves and field slaves was…

House slaves had better food, clothing, and shelter

The gang-labor system, that many planter used, was when….

all field hands worked the same task at the same time

The advantage that skilled slaves had over unskilled slaves was…

At slave auction, a slave worried most about…

seperation

Enslaved parents passed their culture down to their children through…

folktales

Slaves most often ran away to..

visit relatives

slaves rebelled against long working hours by…

working slow

The effect of Nat Turner’s rebellion of 1831 was…

many states strengthened their slave codes

Nat Turner lead of group of slaves to kill their slaveholders because …

he believed God had told him to end slavery

After the rebellion Nat Turner was…

executed

The four part of the Underground Railroad

Passenger, conductors, stations, station masters.

Passengers (UR)

runaway slaves

Conductors (UR)

abolitionists who led fugitives along the railroad to stations

Stations(UR)

places on property owned by abolitionists where slaves hid and got fed

Station Masters (UR)

abolitionists who hid and fed slaves