| A | B |
|---|
| racism | prejudice based on race |
| Harriet Power | African American woman known for her story quilts |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave who gave speeches on racism and slavery in America |
| legal status | biggest difference between free blacks and slaves |
| most rural slaves | worked on farms and plantations across the South |
| most urban slaves were | "hired out" to work and masters got their wages |
| about half of all free African Americans lived in | the South |
| free blacks were forbidden to | own guns |
| not allowed to travel freely | free blacks |
| discrimination | unequal treament based on an arbitrary characteristic |
| segregation | social separation of groups of people, espe. by race |
| black children were often denied | entry into public schools |
| Frederick Douglass was not allowed | a seat in the body of the house of any church in New Bedford, Mass. |
| The great majority of white southerners | did not own slaves but stayed loyal to the concept |
| Southern cotton economy | depended on slavery |
| Cotton 'gin | made cotton profitable. |
| Three quarters of rural slaves were | field hands |
| Not all slaves worked | in the fields |
| Resistance (avoiding work) | most common form of resisting slavery |
| Nat Turner | led bloody uprising in Virginia |
| Beiing whipped and being sold | were most feared forms of control by slaves |
