Pre-Civil War & Abolitionists

Slaves were viewed and treated as_________

• Humans
• Property
• Animals
• Children

A public sale in which slaves were sold to the highest bidders.

• slave trade

• slave auction

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

Being owned by another human and forced to work. Denied freedom.

• Emancipation

• Indentured Servants

• Slavery

• Free Laborers

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

• Jacob Stoyer

• Eli Whitney

• William Still

• Henry Clay

Which invention contributed to the expansion of slavery in the South?

• Motorized tractors

• Steam boat

• Cotton gin

• Interchangeable parts

In the South everyone had slaves.

• True

• False

This was a large estate or farm where a single crop was grown. Slaves did the work for the Master and his family.

• Farm

• Plantation

• Yeoman

• Encomiendas

A person who was in charge of the work of slaves and could punish them for disobeying him.

• Overseer

• Boss

• Master

• Conductor

What does "antebellum south" mean?

• Life in the South before the Civil War

• Life in the South after the Civil War

• Life in the South during the Civil War

• Live in the south during all times of peace

This person was an enslaved African American who led the most effective violent slave rebellion in American history.

• Nat Turner

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass