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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 American settlement? |
Jamestown, Virginia |
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Why did Americans want slaves? |
In the south, especially, Americans were growing huge fields of crops like tobacco, cotton, rice, and sugar. They needed a lot of people to take care of these crops, and didn't need to pay slaves for their work. |
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Where did American slaves live? |
Most lived on farms call plantations. |
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What were the cabins that the slaves ate and slept in called? |
Quarters |
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If you were a slave, what would you eat? |
Bacon, cornmeal, and molasses, given out on Sundays. |
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What might the slaves do on Sunday for food? |
Hunt in the woods for raccoons, opossum, fish, or pick wild berries.
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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? |
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? |
Parcels or 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 go? |
They went north, into non-slave states. |
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True or False: In 1850, a law was passed that allowed slaved catchers to go into northern states to bring slaves back down south, so the slaves began heading all the way to Canada. |
True |
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How did the escaped slaves know which way was north? |
1. They followed their conductors 2. They knew that moss grew on the north side of trees 3. Birds fly north in the spring 4. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and the North Star always points North. 5. The constellation called the Big Dipper or Drinking Gourd points to the North Star. |
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What were the 'stations' like? |
Although they looked like ordinary barns, houses, churches, or inns, they might have secret rooms, fake walls or closets, trapdoors, and hidden tunnels. |
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True or False: Slaves were not carried in wagons with false bottoms or secret compartments. |
False |
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What special signs helped them find the stations? |
Special signs or signals like a colored lantern light, a chimney with a row of white bricks, a statue holding a flag. |
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What other signs might help runaways on their journeys? |
Code words in songs and patterns in quilts hung in windows or on clotheslines. |
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What dangers did the runaways face? |
1. Slave hunters with special bred bloodhound dogs. 2. Wild animals 3. Hunger 4. Cold 5. Sickness 6. Injury |
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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, wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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What is Uncle Tom's Cabin about? |
A kind and gentle slave, Uncle Tom, a wicked slave owner, Simon Legree, and Eliza, a slave, who, with her baby escapes to freedom by jumping from ice float to ice float on the nearly frozen Ohio River. From there she is helped by the Underground Railroad to reach Canada. |
