US History of Slavery

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First president to own slaves	George Washington
Of the first 12 presidents, only two did not own any slaves. Name either	John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Last president to own slaves in office	Zachary Taylor
President in office during most of the civil war	Abraham Lincoln
Name of document that "freed the slaves" in confederate territory	Emancipation Proclamation
This eliminated chattel slavery nationwide as a lawful activity	13th Amendment
Last president to own a slave at any time in their life	Ulysses S. Grant
Last president born into a household with slave labor	Woodrow Wilson
President who owned the most slaves, but oversaw abolition of the international slave trade	Thomas Jefferson
Name of slave that president fathered multiple children with	Sally Hemmings
President who owned one slave named Tom, and when Tom escaped in 1814, did not appear to make significant effort to find him	Martin van Buren

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The first memoir of life in the White House was published by Paul Jennings, a slave of this president	James Madison
This president oversaw the Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state	James Monroe
These non-president founding fathers both brokered slave trades, but co-founded the New York Manumission Society	Alexander Hamilton and John Jay
This non-president founding father posted paid ads for missing slaves and slaves for sale, but later presided over the Pennsylvania Abolition Society	Benjamin Franklin
This state, at the time an independent nation, became the first portion of what would become the United States to abolish slavery	Vermont
All northern states had abolished slavery by 1804, this state was the last to act	New Jersey
One of the first protests of slavery was in 1688 from Dutch and German members of this religious group	Quakers
Holiday recognizing freeing of slaves in Texas	Juneteenth
Famous abolitionist and escaped slave, they helped ~70 slaves escape over ~13 missions, was later a spy for the Union Army	Harriet Tubman
Network of clandestine routes and safe houses to help slaves escape to free states and Canada	Underground Railroad
Escaped slave turned abolitionist, noted for his public speaking skills and autobiographies, later became a US diplomat to Haiti	Frederick Douglass

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