Slavery: No Freedom, No Rights

A slave owner has to invest enough money to keep enslaved people ____________.

• healthy

• alive

• fed

In the United States, enslaved people were given _____ legal rights.

• partial

• full

• no

Under the Constitution, an enslaved person was counted as ____________.

• a whole person

• half of a person

• three-fifths of a person

Slavery was not as widespread in the _________ colonies (states).

• northern

• southern

An ___________ is a person who is held as the property of another person.

• enslaved person

• abolitionist

• slave owner

Individuals justified the horrors of slavery by calling it _________.

• mandated by God

• the way things are

• a necessary evil

An enslaved person who escaped to a free state ______ .

• became free forever

• did not become free

The Constitution required 20 years before a law could make it illegal to _________ slaves.

• import

• own

• buy

Most enslaved people ended up in southern colonies (states) to work on large ______.

• farms

• factories

• ships

Early Americans gave ___________ a say in the government.

• white male landowners

• white female landowners

• everyone but enslaved people