Slavery and the Road to the Civil War

Someone who buys, sells, owns, and uses people as slaves.

Which of these was NOT a major cash crop in the Colonial period.

Which of these people was NOT an abolitionist?

A large farm, worked by enslaved people, on which cash crops are grown.

The act of freeing enslaved people.

The sea voyage across the Atlantic that took captured people from Africa to be enslaved in the Americas.

An armed uprising of enslaved people to try to gain freedom.

_____________ was a slave rebellion where South Carolina slaves attempted to make a run to Spanish Florida and freedom

The least common type of job on a plantation. Someone with a special skill like a blacksmith, chef, or carpenter.

Which of these is not a spiritual that we talked about?

"I don't care about slavery, let the people of each state decide for themselves" would have been said by

Secession was something that the ____________ states wanted to do if Lincoln was elected

Who invented the cotton gin?

The Missouri Compromise stated that there would always be an even number of free and slave states

A person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid capture.

A place where slavery is not allowed.

Abraham Lincoln was a slaveholder

A person who was in charge of the work of enslaved people and could punish them for disobeying.

The Haitian Revolution failed, and French slaveholders regained control of their sugar colony in the Caribbean

Someone who worked in the "Big House" on a plantation. Included maids, nannies, butlers, and other household jobs.

_____________ killed slaveholders in Bleeding Kansas and helped start the Civil War with the attack on Harpers Ferry

Considered the hardest type of plantation work. Responsible for planting and harvesting cash crops.

A secret system to help enslaved people escape to free states or Canada.

Lincoln won the Presidency in the election of....

Who led the 1831 slave rebellion that took place in Virginia?

Harriet Tubman was also referred to as...

The Louisiana Purchase was bought from...

Someone who wanted to get rid of slavery and was a part of the movement to end it.

In Bacon's Rebellion, enslaved people and indentured servants of all races fought together to get rid of rich Virginians

Which territory had two governments, one pro and one anti slavery, and devolved into violence over the slavery vote?