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31 Cards in this Set
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Who brought tobacco farming to Virginia? |
John Rolfe, Pocahontas' husband |
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Other than tobacco, what important crop was grown in the South? |
Cotton |
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What machine picked the seeds out of the cotton boll so that more cotton could be planted? |
The cotton gin (invented by Eli Whitney) |
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What two crops were especially important to South Carolina? |
Rice and indigo (an expensive blue dye) |
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Where was much of the tobacco, cotton, rice and indigo shipped? |
To England and other countries in Europe |
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What was the problem with growing crops like tobacco, cotton, rice and indigo? |
The plants needed to be taken care of "by hand", and so many "hands (People) were needed to care for them. |
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How was the problem solved? |
By slavery |
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What is slavery? |
Slavery is the owning of one person by another. |
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Where did the Americans get slaves? |
Many were stolen from their villages on the WEST coast of Africa? |
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In 1619, the first African slaves arrived in North America. Where did they land? |
Jamestown, Virginia |
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As more African slaves were brought over, where did many enter America? |
Through ports in South Carolina Low Country, especially the Port of Charleston |
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Where did most slaves live? |
On large farms called plantations |
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Where were the cabins where slaves ate and slept? |
In a section of the plantation called the "quarters" |
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If you were a slave, what would you eat? |
Usually bacon, cornmeal and molasses |
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What might you wear? |
Once a year, in the winter, you would be given a set of clothes |
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What do you call the system of secret routes that escaping slaves used to find their way to freedom? |
The Underground Railroad |
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On the Underground Railroad, what did you call the person who guided the slaves to freedom? |
The conductor |
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Who was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad? |
Harriet Tubman, the "Moses" of her people |
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What did you call the escaping slaves? |
Passengers |
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What did you call the safe places where escaped slaves were hidden and sheltered? |
Stations |
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Where did the escaped slaves to? |
At first they went NORTH, to non-slave or "free states" |
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A law was passed that allowed slave catchers to go into "free" states to bring slaves back down south. Where did the slaves go then? |
Canada |
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How did the escaped slaves know which way was north? |
1. They followed their conductors 2. They knew that moss usually grows on the north side of trees 3. Many migrating birds fly north in spring 4. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and the North Star always points North. The constellation called the Big Dipper or Drinking Gourd points to the North Star. |
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What dangers did the runaways face? |
1. Slave hunters with specially bred bloodhounds 2. Wild animals 3. Hunger 4. Cold 5. Sickness 6. Injury |
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What were the "stations" like? |
They looked like ordinary barns, houses, churches or inns |
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What special signs or signals helped runaways find the stations? |
1. A lantern hung in a window 2. A chimney with a special row of white or black bricks 3. A statue holding a flag 4. Code words in songs 5. Patterns in quilts hung in windows or on clotheslines |
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What event in the United States history signaled the end of the Underground Railroad? |
The Civil War which ended slavery |
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Who was the "little woman" President Lincoln said "wrote the book that made this great war?" |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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What is the name of her book? |
Uncle Toms Cabin |
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What is the book about? |
Eliza, a slave, who escapes to freedom and is helped by the Underground Railroad to reach Canada |
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Fresh October brings the pheasant, Then to gather nuts in pleasant. Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast. Cold December brings the sleet, Blazing fire and Christmas treat. |
Fresh October brings the pheasant, Then to gather nuts in pleasant. Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast. Cold December brings the sleet, Blazing fire and Christmas treat.
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