Suffrage and Slavery Review

How did slavery start?

• Black people were sold at auctions

• Africans were brought over by ship to the colonies

• Plantation owners traveled to Africa to hand-select workers to bring back to their homes

What are cash crops?

• Crops grown primarily for money

• Crops grown to feed the owner's family

• Trees that grow money

What was passed in 1865?

• The 13th Amendment making the Underground Railroad legal

• The 13th Amendment which gave black people the right to vote

• The 13th Amendment which abolished slavery

What is true about the way slaves were treated? Select ALL that apply.

• Forced to do manual work from sunrise to sunset

• Treated cruelly; beaten if they tried to fight back

• Given little food or water

• One building where they all slept on the floor

• Only had one pair of shoes to wear

How did Harriet Tubman help in the fight against slavery?

• She wrote a book

• She helped hundreds escape on the Underground Railroad

• She worked with President Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation

TRUE OR FALSE? Fredrick Douglass was born with the name Fredrick Douglass.

• True
• False

What did Douglass have to do to avoid being recaptured?

• He stayed in the Underground Railroad

• He traveled overseas

• He wrote a book to become famous

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• It helped President Lincoln get elected

• It gave Douglass and Lincoln something to work on together

• It freed enslaved people

How did Douglass eventually gain his freedom?

• He escaped to New York

• Britain raised enough money to purchase his freedom in 1847

• He changed his name

TRUE OR FALSE? Douglass joined the Anti-Slavery Society.

• True
• False