Slavery in America

What is the Middle Passage? 

• where slaves escaped to
• the journey from Africa to the colonies
• the land that did not allow slavery
• time period when slavery was legal 

What were the major items grown in the South that used slave labor for cash crops? 

• tobacco and  corn 
• cotton and wheat 
• cotton and corn 
• tobacco and cotton 

The Southern states began to secede.  What does that mean? 

• they allowed slavery 
• they voted for new leaders in Congress 
• they gave up slavery 
• they pulled away from the country 

The Confederate States of America were ...

• The northern factory states

• a country formed by the southern states

• United States region that supported slavery

• winners of the Civil War

An abolitionist is ...

• a person who wanted to end slavery
• a person who bought slaves 
• a person who wanted to stop the underground railroad 
• a person who voted against Lincoln 

This region had fewer slaves and they mostly worked in their owners homes

• North

• South

What was a common way for slaves to rebel

• they slowed their work and broke things

• they tried to murder their owners

• they tried to run away

• they tried to fight their masters physically

A machine that separates cotton from its seeds.

• Cotton Gin

• Plantation

• Abolitionist

• Cash crop

Which colonies had the highest number of slaves?

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Spanish Colonies

The 13th Amendment was a law that

• allowed women to vote

• revised the presidential election procedures

• limited the president to a maximum of two terms or 10 years

• outlawed all slavery and indentured servitude in the United States