Slavery

What were slave codes?

• Secret messages sent by slaves to one another

• Laws to control the behavior of slaves

• A language created by slaves that was used to communicate

• The path slaves traveled to gain freedom

What is NOT a reason some slave-owners broke up enslaved people's families?

• To make slaves suffer

• To demonstrate power over enslaved people

• To discourage slaves from making plans to escape

• To help care for them

Select all the ways slaves resisted.

• Worked slowly

• Broke tools

• Slept instead of working

• Pretended to be sick

• Learned to read

Select all the ways slave-owners controlled slaves.

• Used physical punishment

• Enforced slave codes

• Separated family members

• Yelled at them

• Required permission to leave plantation

What is the Amistad?

• A train that transported slaves to freedom

• My favorite place to go on vacation

• A Spanish slave ship carrying Africans from one port to Cuba

• The capital of Spain in the early 1800's

What happened to the slaves aboard the Amistad?

• They were killed

• They were set free and allowed to return to Africa

• They were sent to the South to work for slave-owners

• They ran away to Canada

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A series of trains and underground tunnels that helped transport slaves to freedom

• A set of maps that showed how much work slaves did each day

• The name of a famous slave ship

• An organized, secret system set up to help enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North

Who was NOT an influential figure involved in helping slaves escape?

• Catherine Coffin

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman

• Levi Coffin