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Why is Eenie Meanie Miney Mo tied to slavery?
White children made up the song to joke about slave catchers capturing escaped enslaved people. It uses a racist slur in the original version.
How are modern jails and prisons based on slavery?
Inmates are not allowed to leave, can be forced to work, and prisons rent out their prisoners to farm. They were created as a way to trap free Black Americans
What is redlining?
A racist practice where Black neighborhoods were discriminated against, and people were not allowed to leave once they lived there.
What is blackface?
A racist practice where white actors paint themselves to "look Black" and mock them. Started after slavery as a way to oppress Black Americans
A series of trails that helped guide enslaved people to freedom. Often with the help of a conductor
The Underground Railroad
A lot of people say "house slaves" had it easier than "field slaves". Why is this wrong?
Being in the house meant that those enslaved people were closer to the slave masters, which increased their rates of abuse
Why did the compromises on slavery increase tensions between the North and the South?
Neither side was getting what they wanted and the more they argued about slavery, the angrier both sides got
Why did the US continue to compromise about slavery?
People were against it but they didn't want to end it because the economy relied on it and they didn't want to go to war
Which Compromise added Missouri as a slave state in exchange for Maine being a free state?
The Missouri Compromise
Why doesn't the Constitution mention slavery?
Most of the founding fathers were slave owners
How did the North participate in and benefit from slavery?
They used the cotton from plantations to make textiles (fabric) and got rich from selling it
Why was Harriet Tubman known as Moses?
She led her people out of slavery like Moses led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt
What was the Abolitionist Movement working for?
Ending all slavery in the US
Describe the economy of the North before the Civil War
Largely focused on industry, factories, and cities.
What were the impacts of the Fugitive Slave Act?
1. Free Black Americans were kidnapped in the North 2. It passed harsh punishments for people helping escapees 3. It forced the North to participate in slavery
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Compromise that gave people in the states the ability to vote on the issue of slavery
Someone in charge of chasing fugitive slaves was called
 
a slave catcher
 
a slave owner
 
a slaver
 
a slavist
A slave could get whipped for stealing food.
 
RIGHT
 
WRONG
Slave children had to go to school to learn how to read and write.
 
WRONG
 
RIGHT
In the US, the crops were mainly...
 
cotton and tobacco
 
cotton and sugar
 
sugar and tobacco
 
sugar and cotton
the overseer was
 
the one in charge of the slaves
 
the one in charge of the plantation
 
the one in charge of the cotton
 
the one in charge of the master's children
Who was in charge of a plantation?
the planter, the plantation owner
How much cotton were enslaved people expected to pick per day?
200 lbs or 10 acres worth
What was Harriet Tubman known as?
Moses
True or False: The Underground Railroad was a train that ran underground
False
What is an Abolitionist?
Someone who is trying to end slavery
This formerly enslaved man escaped to freedom by teaching himself to read and write
Frederick Douglass
On the Underground Railroad: What is an Agent?
Someone who goes into plantations to tell people to wait for the conductor
On the Underground Railroad: What is a conductor?
Someone who guides escaped enslaved people to freedom
On the Underground Railroad: What is a stockholder?
Someone who helps pay for the system and supplies
On the Underground Railroad: What is a station or stationmaster?
A safe house and the person who runs the safe house
What is the main cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
People will say the war was fought over "States Rights". States rights to what?
Slavery
What does it mean when we say "When you know better, do better?"
When you learn that when what you think or do is wrong, change your behavior
Around how many people were enslaved in the south?
Between 3-4 million
What is the tragic irony of the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney was trying to end slavery but made it 10x worse
Why did Black Americans make good spies or Underground Railroad members?
Racist White people thought Black people were too dumb/weak/lazy to be good spies or rebel
Who freed enslaved people legally?
Abraham Lincoln (in the Southern states only)
Who really freed enslaved people?
Themselves through running away, staying hopeful, fighting to end slavery, helping the Underground Railroad, etc.
Name at least 4 ways enslaved Americans resisted
Burning things down, slowing down work, pretending to be sick or disabled, running away, breaking tools, breaking fences, self harm, keeping hope
Describe the economy of the south before the war
Agriculture based, slavery based, rural, mostly poor whites with some rich plantation owners
What are some things that happened at Auctions?
Families split apart, children sold, etc.
What is the impact of slavery on medicine?
Many procedures were created by experimenting on Black Americans, Black Americans still don't receive high quality medical care, racist stereotypes exist
What are slave codes? Give one example of one
Laws limiting the rights of enslaved people. Ex: no reading or writing
True or False: all enslaved people worked only in the field or in the home
False, enslaved people worked in many different jobs
What are some ways in which slavery still impacts the US in 2024?
Racist stereotypes, the modern prison system is modeled on slavery, Black Americans receive worse medical care, Redlining neighborhoods promotes segregation,etc


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