13 Colonies And Slavery

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Royal Charter

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Document given by the king to people or groups of people that gives them power and control over land etc.

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Asiento

Back 2

The permission given by the Spanish government to other countries to sell people as slaves to the Spanish colonies.

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Plantation

Back 3

Large farm worked by many laborers.

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Indentured Servant

Back 4

Person who agreed to work a certain number of years in exchange for their passage to America

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Middle Passage

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The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

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Slave Trade

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The act of buying, transporting and selling of Africans for work in the Americas.

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Harriet Tubman

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African slavery abolitionist, she was known as Moses and the conductor in the Underground Railroad.

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John Smith

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English explorer and leader of the Jamestown Colony.

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Fredrick Douglass

Back 9

African American who was one of the most eminent human rights leaders of the 19th century, His oratorical and literary brilliance thrust him into the forefront of the U.S. abolition movement, and he became the first black citizen to hold high rank in the U.S. government, writer of the newspaper North Star.

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John White

Back 10

Explorer and governor of Roanoke Island.

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William Penn

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Founder of Pennsylvania, he was a Quaker.

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th president of the United States (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of the slaves.

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Sojourner Truth

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African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervor to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.

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Virginia Dare

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First child born in America to English parents.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Founder of Roanoke Island