Chapter 16 Us History

Question 1

overseer

Answer 1

Supervisor or superintendent; one who keeps watch over and directs the work of others. Plantation overseer, often in the context of forced labor or slavery.

Question 2

sabotage

Answer 2

deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity or corporation through subversion, obstruction, disruption or destruction.

Question 3

fratricidal

Answer 3

relating to or denoting conflict within a single family or organization.

Question 4

barbarism

Answer 4

absence of culture and civilization.

Question 5

Nat Turner

Answer 5

Nat Turner was an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths.

Question 6

Sojourner Truth

Answer 6

Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist.

Question 7

Frederick Douglass

Answer 7

Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

Question 8

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 8

William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.

Question 9

David Walker

Answer 9

David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist.

Question 10

Middlemen

Answer 10

a person who plays an economic role intermediate between producer and retailer or consumer.