Chapter 7: The Nation Divides

A person with no freedom or rights, forced into service.

• slave

• abolish

• free state

• plantation

A large farm where crops are raised to be sold is called a ________.

• slave

• plantation

• free state

• abolish

Abolish

• A person with no freedom or rights, forced into service.

• The rights and powers held by the state governments.

• To end or prohibit by law.

• A state where enslaving people was legal.

states’ rights

• to end or prohibit by law

• a state where enslaving people was not legal

• a person with no freedom or rights, forced into service

• the rights and powers held by the state governments

In the late 1700's people who were opposed to slavery began a movement to abolish, or end, the practice. This was called the _______ movement.

• states' rights

• abolitionist

• plantation

• free state

The secret routes used by people int he North and South to help escaped enslaved people reach freedom was called the ________________________

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Underground Railroad

• Abolitionist

• Plantations

Southern enslavers paid slave-catchers to capture and return runaway slaves. This was called ________________.

• Abolitionist Movement

• Underground Railroad

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• States' Rights Act of 1848

Any individual who escaped from slavery in the period before and including the Civil War were called ________.

• conductors or agents

• refugees

• abolitionists

• fugitives