Slavery in America

How did profit make American slavery the worst?

• Making money off slavery is evil

• Profit made them treat slaves harshly

• cheap slaves were treated worse

• It created an endless need for as many slaves as possible

How did slaves being viewed as "less than human" make American slavery the worst?

• It created an endless desire for as many slaves as possible

• Racial hatred allowed for cruel treatment and punishment

• Slaves were actually treated well in America

• All of the following answer choices are correct

How did Africans rebel against slavery?

• refuse to work or work slowly

• run away

• fight back

• write letters to the government

What is the Middle Passage? 

• where slaves escaped to
• the journey from Africa to the colonies
• the land that did not allow slavery
• time period when slavery was legal 

What were the major items grown in the South that used slave labor for cash crops? 

• tobacco and  corn 
• cotton and wheat 
• cotton and corn 
• tobacco and cotton 

An abolitionist is ...

• a person who wanted to end slavery
• a person who bought slaves 
• a person who wanted to stop the underground railroad 
• a person who voted against Lincoln 

What was the legal status of slaves in the United States?

• citizen
• property
• dependents
• immigrants

Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?

• They feared the power of the slaveholders.
• They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
• They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.

What is oppression?

• The social separation of groups of people especially by race.
• The belief that one race is superior to another.
• The feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force.

The loyalty to a part of a nation or region, but not the nation as a whole.

• emancipation

• sectionalism

• conscription

• secession