Unit 2 Exam - HUSH (copy)

Middle Passage

The forced transportation of Africans to the Americas for labor, beginning in the 1440s.

Slave Codes

Laws enacted in the 1660s in Virginia that kept Africans and their children in permanent bondage.

King Cotton

A term describing the cotton industry's dominance and its impact on the importation of slaves in the 19th century.

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

An 1831 uprising led by Nat Turner, involving the killing of about 75 whites by enslaved people.

Fugitive Slave Act

A 1850 law that empowered slave patrols to recapture escaped slaves.

Underground Railroad

A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to freedom.

Freedmen’s Bureau

A government agency created in 1865 to assist former slaves in transitioning to American society.

Black Codes

Laws that enforced restrictions on freed slaves, keeping them in a state of servitude.

Sharecropping

A system where a tenant farms land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crops.

Ku Klux Klan

A secret society formed in the South in the post-Civil War era with the goal of intimidating African Americans.