Chapter 16

Question 1

British Royal Navy force formed to enforce the abolition of the slave trade in 1807; it intercepted hundreds of slave ships and freed thousands of Africans

Answer 1

West Africa Squadron

Question 2

slave drivers who employed the lash to brutally (—-) the souls of strong-willed slaves

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breakers

Question 3

region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves; the (—-) emerged in the nineteenth century as cotton production became more profitable and slavery expanded south and west

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Black Belt

Question 4

call and response style of preaching that melded Christian and African traditions; practiced by African slaves in the South

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responsorial

Question 5

Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the deaths of sixty whites and raised fears among white Southerners of further uprisings

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Nat Turner’s rebellion

Question 6

Spanish slave ship dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard; the ship was driven ashore in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial; former president John Quincy Adams argued their case before the Supreme Court, securing their eventual release

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Amistad

Question 7

reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves

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American Colonization Society

Question 8

West-African nation founded in 1822 as a haven for freed blacks, fifteen thousand of whom made their way back across the Atlantic by the 1860s

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Liberia

Question 9

antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, who called for the immediate emancipation of all slaves

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The Liberator

Question 10

abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery; by 1838, the organization had more than 250,000 members across 1,350 chapters

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American Anti-Slavery Society

Question 11

incendiary abolitionist track advocating the violent overthrow of slavery; published by David Walker, a Southern-born free black

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Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

Question 12

vivid autobiography of the escaped slave and renowned abolitionist (—-)

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Question 13

originally drawn by surveyors to resolve the boundaries between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1760s, it came to symbolize the North-South divide over slavery

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Mason-Dixon line

Question 14

prohibited debate or action on antislavery appeals; driven through the House by pro-slavery Southerners, the (—-) passed every year for eight years, eventually overturned with the help of John Quincy Adams

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Gag Resolution

Question 15

an emancipated slave in Mississippi who was a well-known barber and is known also for his 16 year diary

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William T. Johnson

Question 16

an African American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths. Whites responded with at least 200 black deaths. He gathered supporters in Southampton County, Virginia

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Nat Turner

Question 17

an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade

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William Wilberforce

Question 18

an abolitionist who was a well-known architect and speaker for the cause. He was co -author of “American Slavery as it is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses”

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Theodore Dwight Weld

Question 19

an extreme abolitionist who wrote/published the newspaper The Liberator

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William Lloyd Garrison

Question 20

a free African-American abolitionist who wrote/published “An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World”

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David Walker

Question 21

a freed slave whose real name is Isabella Baumfree, she was an abolitionist and advocated for the equality of women

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Sojourner Truth

Question 22

a free black abolitionist who was a military officer, was educated at Harvard Medical School, and was arguably the first proponent of American black nationalism

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Martin Delany

Question 23

a black abolitionist who escaped from slavery, and later became one of the most famous speakers and writers of the abolitionist movement

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Frederick Douglass