Chapter 16

Question 1

Overseer

Answer 1

Someone who governs or directs the work of another.

Question 2

Sabotage

Answer 2

Intentional destruction or damage of goods, machines, or productive processes.

Question 3

Fratricidal

Answer 3

Literally, concerning the killing of brothers; the term is often applied to the killing of relatives or countrymen in feuds or civil wars.

Question 4

Barbarism

Answer 4

The condition of being crude, uneducated, or uncivilized.

Question 5

Nat Turner

Answer 5

Began a rebellion against slavery.

Question 6

Sojourner Truth

Answer 6

An abolitionist and women’s rights activist.

Question 7

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 7

A black abolitionist who escaped from bondage at the age of twenty-one. In 1845 he published his classic autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass”.

Question 8

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 8

Militant abolitionist who wrote anti-slavery propaganda.

Question 9

David Walker

Answer 9

An out-spoken African American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist.

Question 10

Middlemen

Answer 10

In trading systems, those dealers who operate between the original producers of goods and the retail merchants who sell to consumers.