Chapter 16 Key terms

Question 1

David Walker

Answer 1

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

Question 2

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 2

Militant abolitionist who wrote anti-slavery propoganda

Question 3

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 3

A black abolitionist who escaped from bondage at the age of 21. In 1845 he published his classic autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass”.

Question 4

Sojourner Truth

Answer 4

An abolitionist and women’s rights activist.

Question 5

Nat Turner

Answer 5

Began a rebellion against slavery

Question 6

Barbarism

Answer 6

The condition of being crude, uneducated, or uncivilized

Question 7

Fratricidal

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Sabotage

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Overseer

Answer 9

Someone who governs or directs the work of another

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 the consumers