| A | B |
|---|
| Nat Turner | lead a serious revolt by killing members of slaveowning white families |
| Frederick Douglas | at 8 years old he asked this slaveowner's wife to teach him how to read |
| Frederick Douglas | convinced poor white children to give him reading lessons in exchange for bread |
| Frederick Douglas | gave speeches all over the country about slavery and wrote a book about his early life as a slave |
| slave catchers | persons whose job was to roam cities looking for escaped slaves |
| Weeksville, New York, and Umbler, Virginia | examples of two communities since the early 1700s founded by free African Americans |
| George Washington | he freed his slaves after the American Revolution |
| "Cotton is king" | a saying that meant the South produced most of the world's supply of cotton |
| North Star, Freedom's Advocate, MIrror of Liberty, Freedom's Journal | some of the 17 African American newspapers printed in the U.S. by 1860 |
| abolitionists | someone who wants to abolish or end slavery in the U.S. |
| Quakers | a religious group that was among the first abolitionists |
| William Lloyd Garrison | he was a religious man who felt strongly that slavery was wrong and immoral |
| The Liberator | a newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison that printed articles against slavery |
| Angelina and Sarah Grimke, southern daughers of a wealthy judge and slave owner | two sisters who moved North to speak out publically to end slavery |
| Underground Railroad | a system of secret routes that escaping slaves and captives followed to freedom |
| "passengers" | the name given to slaves who escaped through the Underground Railroad |
| "conductors" | the name for those who guided and transported escapees on the Underground Railroad |
| "stations" | the name for places escapees hid along the way traveling the Underground Railroad |
| "stationmasters" | the name for people who fed and sheltered escapees along the Underground Railroad |
| "drinking gourd" | the star constellation known as the Little Dipper used to guide slaves north |
| North Star | one of the stars of the Little Dipper (drinking gourd) that helped guide slaves north |
| Levi and Catherine Coffin | a Quaker husband and wife who fed, clothed and helped slaves escape |
| Harriet Tubman | a slave who risked her life by running away from the plantation and traveling 90 miles north to Pennsylvania |
| Harriet Tubman | a slave who returned to her Maryland plantation and helped free more than 300 slaves |
| women | the discussion of the rights of the slave opened the way to discuss the rights of _____. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 240 people attended to discuss the condition and rights of women |
| Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | women who organized the Seneca Falls convention to discuss women's rights |
| Sojourner Truth | she spoke out in a convention against a man claimed that women were weaker |
| "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" | modeled after the Declaration of Independence, a document listing 18 rights women should have |
