Unit 5 (Slavery)

A person who flees, or tries to escape

• Fugitive

• Abolitionist

• Escapist

• Criminal

Someone who fought to end slavery

• Abolitionist

• Fugitive

• Revolutionary

• Suffragette

To make changes in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices

• Abolish

• Revolt

• Reform

• Transcend

The feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force

• Oppression

• Racism

• Discrimination

• Segregation

The belief that one ethnic group of people is worse than or better than another

• Racism

• Segregation

• Discrimination

• Oppression

Goods or objects that can be bought, sold, and traded

• Chattel

• Cargo

• Merchandise

• Real Estate

This term is used to describe the journey that enslaved Africans had to endure across the Atlantic Ocean

• The Long Trip

• The Middle Passage

• The Low Adventure

• The Trail of Tears

This Supreme Court decision reinforced the notion that enslaved people could not be citizens, and therefore could not have legal rights

• Marbury vs. Madison

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Roe vs. Wade

This shape is often used to describe the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Triangle

• Square

• Pentagon

• Octagon

The secret network of people who worked to help enslaved people escape from slavery in the South

• The Underground Railroad

• The Weather Underground

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Abolitionist Trail