Chapter 20 review

What invention led to the demand for more slaves?

What term describes how free African Americans in the North and South experienced unequal treatment because of race?

In response to rebellions what did Southern states pass to tighten their control?

At what age did slaves begin doing work for owners?

What art form did slaves use while working in the fields, at social gatherings, and at church?

Most Southerners believed what part of society depended on slave labor?

What was the name of those who supervised slaves while they worked?

What type of rebellion involved slaves pulling down fences, breaking tools, and working sloppy?

What was one activity that slaves did that combined work and fun?

What biblical figure did slave preachers often focus on?

What did slaves often create to tell stories, but served as much needed bedding?

Who was the most famous “conductor” of the Underground Railroad?

Where did slave “invisible churches” often meet?

Most slaves in the South did what type of work?

According to law, what legal status did slaves have which meant they had no rights?

What slave was able to escape because he could read and write and shared his experiences as an abolitionist?

What group was formed to protest the treatment of African Americans?

Which individuals tried to lead attacks and revolts against slave owners?

Runaway slaves depended on what secret network to help them escape to freedom?

Of all the things slaves endured what was their biggest fear?

What tradition did slaves have to signify that a couple had “gotten married?”

What term describes how there were separate places in public for blacks and whites?