What was the public reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act in the North?
Northerners generally resisted the Act by refusing to comply with it; some even organized efforts to help fugitive slaves evade capture.
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How many black slaves did we estimate the number of?
7 million
(some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million black slaves were imported to the New World during the 18th century.)
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What is this machine called, used in the Indian subcontinent ?
The Cotton Gin
(machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton).
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The enslaved people listed in the printed advertisement were mortgaged in 1840 and then, according to the advertisement, ordered to be sold in 1842, when their owner died. Did they have a choice in this transaction?
No.
(They had no choice to whom they would be sold or if they would be sold...)
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When did slavery started ?
1619
(Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.)
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What was the mission of William Lloyd Garrisonâs newspaper, The Liberator?
To advocate for the emancipation of slaves.
(Garrisonâs paper became a strong and galvanizing voice in the American abolitionist movement).
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What was the goal of the American Colonization Society?
To help free-born American blacks move to Africa.
(By 1867 the organization had assisted more than 13,000 blacks in moving to the colony of Liberia).
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In the early 1820s, this man led a slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina. Who was it?
Denmark Vessey
(with 80 others, planned to take over Charleston. However, he was betrayed, and the rebellion never even had a chance to start.)
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TRUE OR FALSE : slaves were never paid for their labor.
False
(Some of them were allowed to work for wages, and a few of those to save those wages to purchase their freedom).
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TRUE OR FALSE : Slavery was allowed only in the South side of the country.
False
(It took until 1804 for all Northern states to pass laws that gradually ended slavery).
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In how many of the original thirteen colonies was slavery legal on the eve of the Revolutionary War ?
13
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Where did the slaves live ?
Farms
(Slaves in the antebellum South constituted about one-third of the southern population. Most slaves lived on large plantations or small farms).
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What was the underground railroad?
loosely organized routes of people who helped slaves escape north.
