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19 Cards in this Set
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What is Slavery? |
Slavery is the owning of one human being by another. |
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What do you call the kidnapping of people to make them slaves and then the selling of them to make money? |
The slave trade |
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During the 1500's to 1700's, from what continent did the Europeans take people by force and then sell them as slaves in North America? |
The West coast of Africa |
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In 1619, the first enslaved Africans arrived in what America settlement? |
Jamestown, Virginia |
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Why did the Americans want slaves? |
In the south, especially, Americans were growing huge crops like tobacco, cotton, rice, and sugar. They needed a lot of people to take care of these crops. |
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Where did American slaves live? |
Most lived on farms called Plantations. Their actions where they slept were called quarters. |
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If you were a slave, what would you eat? |
Bacon, cornmeal, and molasses |
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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 of the underground railroad? |
Harriet Tubman, the "Moses" of her people |
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What do you call the escaping slaves? |
Parcels or passengers |
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What did you call the safe places where escaped slaves where hidden and sheltered? |
Stations |
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We're did the escaped slaves go? |
They went North to non-slave states and all the way into Canada. |
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How did the escaped slaves know which was North? |
1. The followed their conductor 2. Moss usually grows on North sides of Trees 3.Migrating birds fly north in the spring 4. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west 5. The north star always points north The constellation called the big dipper or the drinking gourd points to the north star. |
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What were"stations" like? |
Although they looked like normal churches, barns, houses or inns they might have trap doors, hidden rooms, fake walls or closets, trap doors and hidden tunnels. Special signs or signals helped slaves find stations. |
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What other signs might help runaway on their journeys? |
Code words in songs, and patterns hung in quilts in Windows or on clothesline. |
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What dangers did runaway face? |
Slave hunters, bloodhound tracking them, wild animals (alligators, snakes, bears) hunger, cold, sickness, and injury |
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What event in United States history signaled the end of the Underground railroad? |
The Civil War |
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Who was the "little woman" that President Lincoln said,"wrote the book that made this great war? |
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book, Uncle Tom's Cabin |
