Unit 4 Vocab Exam - 5th

To cancel; to put an end to. Many people fought hard to __________ slavery.

• abolish

• distinguish

• equal

• freedom

The freeing of slaves. President Abraham Lincoln signed the __________ Proclamation in 1862, which said that slavery in the United States must end.

• Evaporation

• Emancipation

• Elementary

• Education

To take a path away; to leave; to get free. Some slaves were able to __________ to freedom using the Underground Railroad.

Choose THREE (3) laws in Massachusetts.

• You must drive under the speed limit.

• You cannot text while driving.

• You cannot change the radio station in someone else's car.

• You must wear a seatbelt while traveling in a car.

A large farm, usually in a hot place, which grows crops such as coffee, cotton, or sugar. Slaves were forced to work with no pay on __________s, mostly in the South.

• plantation

• partition

• proclamation

• petition

Being owned by another person and being made to work without wages. __________ was abolished in the United States by the 13th amendment to our Constitution, except as punishment for a crime.

To tell two things apart; to make clear the differences between two or more concepts or items. It can be difficult to __________ between two twins.

• demonstrate

• conflict

• distinguish

• equality

When people have __________, they all have the same rights. People did not have __________ before slavery was abolished, and in many ways, we still don't.

The power or right to act, speak, or think the way you want without anyone stopping you. The Constitution gives us the __________ of speech.

• demands

• conditions

• route

• freedom

The chance of loss from an event that cannot be entirely controlled. When you __________ something, you are in danger of losing or harming it.

• rights

• risk

• redeem

• regulate