This KS3 History quiz takes a second look at abolition of slavery in the USA. The majority of slaves in the USA were Africans. Slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865 with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Today, slavery in any form is illegal in most countries. In the USA, the road to the abolition of slavery was long and hard. There was a lot less slavery in the northern states and by the nineteenth century, many people living in the north wanted slavery to be abolished. A strong abolition movement developed. One leading figure of the movement, Frederick Douglass, was born as a slave but escaped to freedom when he was 20 years old. He became a writer and speaker against slavery.
By the end of the 18th century, free slaves and northerners who were against slavery were helping slaves escape from the south. They did this via a network of safe houses that were termed the Underground Railroad. This was one of the things that caused tension between the north and the south even before the Civil War began - the southerners saw this as being an attempt to take away a system that supported their way of life.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - The transatlantic slave trade overview
He had taught himself to read and write
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The anti-slavery north versus the slave-owning south
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He was the one and only president of the Confederate States as they lost the Civil War and had to re-join the United States
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That is because they represented the regions that had remained part of the United States
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Alabama is a southern state and supported slavery at the time of the Civil War
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It took many more years for the abolition to significantly improve the lives of slaves
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He took office as President in March 1861
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The Emancipation Proclamation set free the slaves in the Confederate states
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It is estimated that between 800,000 and one million people died during the American Civil War, that is about 550 to 600 people killed each day of the conflict
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The 14th and 15th Amendments also relate to the rights of former slaves
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