Chapter 16 Terms

Question 1

Overseer

Answer 1

Someone who governs or directs the work of another.

Question 2

Sabotage

Answer 2

International 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. (The killing of sisters is sororicide; of fathers patricide; and of mothers matricide.)

Question 4

Barbarism (Barbarian)

Answer 4

The condition of being crude, uneducated, or uncivilized.

Question 5

Nat Turner

Answer 5

And African American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths.

Question 6

Sojourner Truth

Answer 6

An African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

Question 7

Frederick Douglass

Answer 7

An African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesmen.

Question 8

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 8

A prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.

Question 9

Middle Men

Answer 9

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