WorksheetsVocabulary The Slave Trade and Abolition
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 17mins
The best-known is the transatlantic slave trade that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, American colonies, and the European colonial powers.
authority constitutionally
enforced labor
system
abolitionist
triangular slave trade
A person who believed in and often fought for the end of slavery.
abolitionist
abolition
enforced labor
slave
enterprising
A set of things working together as parts of a whole or an interconnecting network, like the slavery system in the United States.
triangular slave trade
slavery
system
underground railroad
A large field that is used to grow crops, like tobacco, cotton, and sugar.
crops
farmers
system
slavery
plantation
Who is this?
W.E.B Douglass
Frederick DuBois
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B DuBois
Also known as racism; discrimination based on race that affects the opportunities an individual can get.
racism
scourge
racial equality
slavery
racial inequality
related to or based in the household
domestic
institution
affliction
interpose
repudiate
building
house
school
post office
edifice
lauded
banning of slavery
abolitionist
slave trade
abolition
triangular slave trade
system
able to be charged with a crime
lauded dogma
authority constitutionally
liable to indictment
legally
natural increase
to refuse to accept or continue with something
repudiate
dominate
enterprising
internal
affliction
This slaves back was
domestic
moderate
elated
scourged
interposed
able to think of and carry out new ideas
constitutionally
enterprising
internal
lauded dogma
industry
No! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm, but urge me not to use _____ in a cause like the present
slavery
immigrants
moderation
economy
affliction
Each wants to _____the government in Washington. But as long as Congress is evenly divided between slave states and free states, there is some stability.
moderate
repudiate
abolish
dominate
interpose
The Southern leaders don't seem to understand. _____ and ideas and inventions are beginning to change the North. The South will be left out of much of that excitement.
Industry
Immigrants
Slavery
Abolition
Enforced labor
But ending the international slave trade doesn't put an end to slavery itself, which continues to grow by _____ _____. And within the South a major internal slave trade develops.
lauded dogma
natural increase
authority constitutionally
liable to indictment
unoffending inhabitants of Africa
something that causes pain or suffering
interpose
institution
abolition
affliction
industry
Therefore, any free person who shall teach any slave to read and write shall be _____________. If any slave shall teach, or attempt to teach, any other slave, he or she shall receive thirty-nine lashes on his or her bare back.”
unoffending inhabitants of Africa
constitutionally
liable to indictment
legally
racial inequality
when a population grows because more people are born
moderation
abolition
abolitionist
natural increase
Which vocabulary word does this picture best support?
elated
durable
triangular slave trade
liable to indictment
Robert Walsh was an _____ of a slave ship in action. He wrote: “The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways, between decks. The space was so low they sat between each other’s legs …
owner
slave driver
eyewitness
overseer
The teaching of slaves has a tendency to ____ dissatisfaction in their minds.
interpose
enforced labor
abolish
excite
The last parting sounds we heard from the unhallowed ship were the cries and shrieks of the slaves, suffering under some bodily _____.
affliction
abolish
scourge
authority constitutionally
the system by which a country’s money and goods are made and used
economy
profitable
prevail
international
firm beliefs that are praised
lauded dogma
enforced labor
triangular slave trade
profitable
racial inequality
lasting
durable
internal
interpose
elated
legally
within a region
internal
abolition
immigrant
durable
excite
Africans that do not cause problems
immigrants
unoffending inhabitants of Africa
lauded dogma
eyewitness
triangular slave trade
very happy
elated
prevail
interpose
sourge
edifice
by law
slavery
economy
legally
elated
moderation
to put yourself between two things
enforced labor
international
interpose
profitable
industry
an idea that is successful in the end
edifice
moderation
prevail
interpose
industry
involving more than one country
international
economy
system
abolition
enterprising
