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Slavery Vocabulary Quiz

 

Directions: Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the right.

1. assassinate the act of freeing from some constraint or confinement.
2. blockade in U.S. history, the period immediately following the Civil War.
3. abolitionism a policy imposing social separation according to racial or ethnic groups.
4. fugitive to murder for pay or for ideological reasons.
5. recruit a policy or principle of slavery in the United States.
6. secede an increase in the average price level.
7. reconstruction someone who is escaping or running away, as from the police, persecution, responsibilities, or the like.
8. reveille to quit an organization, a political or religious unit or alliance, or the like.
9. inflation to turn over or yield to the power, control, or possession of another, esp. under compulsion:
10. emancipation the barring or shutting off of traffic in and out of an area, such as a seaport or city, by hostile military forces.
11. surrender a soldier recently drafted or enlisted into the armed forces.
12. segregation a military maneuver in which a fortification is surrounded, subjected to attack, and cut off from supplies or reinforcements until its occupants surrender.
13. siege a call sounded early in the morning to waken or alert people, esp. a bugle call for troops to assemble.

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