Chapter 16 Vocabulary

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. (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

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

An African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, 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 statesman.

Question 8

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 8

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

Question 9

David Walker

Answer 9

An outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.

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.