| A | B |
|---|
| Cotton | Major cash crop of South |
| West Africa | Slaves homeland |
| Treatment of Slaves | bought and sold like property |
| Slave Code | Could not be taught to read or write |
| 1808 | Slave Trade outlawed |
| overseer | a boss who watched over the slaves |
| abolitionist | a person who wanted to do away with slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Boston newspaper the Liberator |
| Frederick Douglass | Former Slave who wrote the North Star |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Underground Railroad | secret route for escaping slaves |
| station | safe homes slaves hid in |
| conductor | person who led slaves to freedom |
| Harriet Tubman | rescued 300 slaves on Underground RR |
| Missouri Compromise | kept even balance between slave and free states |
| Compromise of 1850 | California enters as a free state, and escaped slaves sent back to owners |
| Abraham Lincoln | won the election of 1860 |
| Quilts | blocks were codes for slaves |
| House slaves | treated better, worked in the house |
| Field Slaves | treated more harshly, worked in the fields |
