Vocab

Question 1

Anti slavery

Answer 1

Used to describe a person action or IDEA that is against slavery

Question 2

Corporal punishment

Answer 2

Punishment by the infliction of physical pain especially flogging. This is how most slaves were punished

Question 3

Discriminate

Answer 3

To treat unfair or unfavorably especially on the basis of race or gender

Question 4

Domestic Slave

Answer 4

An enslaved person who works in a household rather than in the field

Question 5

Enfranchisement

Answer 5

Granting the right to vote

Question 6

Enslavement

Answer 6

To make a slave of a person, being held in captivity, servitude

Question 7

Freedom

Answer 7

The state of being at liberty, unrestricted, not restrained

Question 8

Gang labor

Answer 8

Workers who toiled in the fields collectively all doing the same task at the same time. Last from sun rise to sunset. (Overseer/driver)

Question 9

Insurrection

Answer 9

Rebellion , uprising, open resistance to authority

Question 10

Jim Crow laws

Answer 10

Legislation in many American states that enforced segregation between black and white

“Jim crow” also refers to a black character played by a white man

Question 11

Ku klux klan

Answer 11

White racist organization. Prevented freed enslaved people from voting and experience other civil rights. Used white robes to hide identity and used terror and intimidation against blacks

Question 12

Merchant

Answer 12

Trader of goods. Buying for one price and selling it on for an increased price

Question 13

Negro

Answer 13

Term used to describe a man of African descent. The word is considered derogatory and unacceptable today. Negress was used to describe a woman of African descent

Question 14

Overseer(driver)

Answer 14

Person on a plantation paid a wage to organize the work of the enslaved people; manger

Question 15

Plantation

Answer 15

A large area of farmland or estate planted with particular crops

Question 16

Pro slavery

Answer 16

Describes a person place or idea that favors slavery

Question 17

Racism

Answer 17

A belief that one group is inferior or superior to another because of their race

Question 18

Seasoning

Answer 18

New enslaved people were given marginally lesser tasks in the seasoning period as their ability to survive disease was tested

Question 19

Segregation

Answer 19

Separation of people especially in use of public facilities employment education and housing. Usually with a denial of political rights for the excluded group

Question 20

Shackles

Answer 20

Metal hoops and chains put round necks wrists ankles of usually men enslaved people to restrain them

Question 21

Slave

Answer 21

A servant devoid of freedom and personal rights

Question 22

Suffrage

Answer 22

Right to vote

Question 23

Task labor

Answer 23

Where people are given goals to achieve and benefit if they can complete the work quickly

Question 24

Thirteenth amendment

Answer 24

The 1865 alternation to the United States constitution which abolished slavery

Question 25

Underground Railroad

Answer 25

An escape route for thousands of enslaved people from the south to the north.

Question 26

Whitneys cotton gin

Answer 26

An engine that separated the seeds from the cotton plant

Question 27

Abolitionist

Answer 27

Person who supported the movement to end the transatlantic slave trade and slavery