Slavery

Question 1

Underground Railroad

Answer 1

network of people who helped enslaved people escape the South to the North or Canada
(it is not a railroad, and it is not underground)

Question 2

slave codes

Answer 2

set of rules that prohibited enslaved people’s autonomy and restricted their rights to vote, own property, assemble, marry, travel, and more
these were enforced to lower the chances of rebellion

Question 3

Middle Passage

Answer 3

leg of the triangular trade where Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean under harsh, cramped, and unsanitary conditions

Question 4

quarters

Question 5

Missouri Compromise

Answer 5

law that made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state (without slaves)

Question 6

entrepreneurship

Answer 6

process of starting a business with financial risks to earn profit

Question 7

abolitionist

Answer 7

someone who advocates for the abolition (ending) of slavery

Question 8

triangular trade

Answer 8

three-legged transatlantic route that connected Europe, western Africa, and the New World, where enslaved people were traded for commodities

Question 9

subsistence farming

Answer 9

practice where farmers grow crops and livestock to provide for themselves and their family rather than trade

Question 10

plantation

Answer 10

agricultural area where cash crops (tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, coffee, etc.) are grown

Question 11

artisan

Answer 11

worker who makes things by hand; practices handicraft

Question 12

emancipation

Answer 12

act of liberating someone from slavery

Question 13

racism

Answer 13

prejudice or discrimination against someone based on their race; belief that a race is superior or inferior to another

Question 14

antebellum

Answer 14

existing before a war, especially the American Revolution
ante = before
bell = war
(I remember 7th-grade affix definitions! :D)