Unit 4 Slavery

Front

What is the middle passage?

Back

the trip from Africa to the Americas

Front

Why were Africans captured and forced to work in the Americas?

Back

To provide more workers for plantations

Front

What is the definition of a slave?

Back

Someone who is owned by another person

Front

Which is true of free African Americans living in both the North and the South?

Back

They faced discrimination and racism.

Front

Which of these best describes the Underground Railroad? Options: a series of tunnels used to move slaves to free states, people who secretly helped slaves escape to the North, transportation system that moved slaves to freedom at night, people who caught fugitive slaves and returned them to owners

Back

people who secretly helped slaves escape to the North

Front

What is segregation?

Back

The social separation of groups of people especially by race.

Front

What were slave codes?

Back

Laws to control the behavior of slaves

Front

What was the Underground Railroad?

Back

An organized, secret system set up to help enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North.

Front

Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery?

Back

True

Front

The name given to the northern army.

Back

Union