Slavery Ends

Hello Students:

Today you will be using an interactive timeline called the History of the United States. Before you visit this site, read the information below. Then click on the link below to begin.

* When the United States Timeline appears, drag your mouse to the right until you reach the year 1865.

* Click on the picture titled "Slavery Ends."

* There will be a red button at the bottom of the page that says, “read me.” Click it and read the paragraph that appears.

* This same paragraph will appear on each of the following pages, so you may review it whenever you click “read me.” You may hide the writing by clicking on the “hide me” button whenever you wish to view the whole picture.

* Look at all five of the photographs on slavery by clicking on the moving sprocket button in the bottom right-hand corner of each picture.

* When you are finished, return to this page by clicking on the “Back” button at the top, and answer the questions below in your social studies notebooks.

*You may go back and reread any time you wish.

If you are ready to begin, click here.

Can you answer these questions about slavery?

1. In what year was slavery outlawed in the United States?

2. What document ended slavery?

3. From what continent did most enslaved people come?

4. About how many enslaved people were shipped to the United States?

5. After slavery ended, Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee. What is Tuskegee?