COTTON GIN, NO CHASER

ROOTS AND CULTURE

I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE…

“AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?”

AMERICAN CONSTITUTION

DREADFUL RIOT ON

NEGRO HILL

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100 Points

Question: This Connecticut inventor invented the cotton gin.

Answer: Eli Whitney

200 Points

Question: The expansion of enslavement in the early 19th century was due to the ____________, Jefferson’s deal brokered with the French that doubled the United State’s size.

Answer: Louisiana Purchase

300 Points

Question: The trade of enslaved Americans of African descent born in the United States, also called ____________, grew with the introduction of .

Answer: domestic slave trade

400 Points

Question: Tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton are four examples of __________ or crops cultivated for revenue alone.

Answer: cash crops

500 Points

Question: To satisfy the need for enslaved people in the Southeast, enslaved people from these two original thirteen states: _______ & _________ were sold away from their homes and families with great frequency.

Answer: Virginia and Maryland

100 Points

Question: The African-based creole language of ________ was spoken among men and women of African descent in the low country of Savannah and Charleston.

Answer: Gullah

200 Points

Question: The brief takeover of Virginia government by an interracial group of colonists, indentured servants and enslaved people was called _____________ in honor of its leader, Nathaniel Bacon.

Answer: Bacon’s Rebellion

300 Points

Question: These Virginia laws emerged between 1660 and 1710 and promoted enslavement as the assumed condition for people of African descent:

Answer: Black codes

400 Points

Question: Contrary to English common law, in the American colonies and successor states, the status of a child as free or enslaved followed the condition of his/her ________.

Answer: mother

500 Points

Question: Written into the state constitution in 1777, which state was the first to end enslavement?.

Answer: Vermont

100 Points

Question: The incident aboard the slaver __________--where over 100 sick and dying Africans were thrown overboard to their deaths for insurance money--got the English public more interested in the cause of abolition.. Answer: Zong

200 Points

Question: English men and women arrived in the Virginia colony to become __________, a type of unfree laborer.

Answer: indentured servants

Question: English explorers like Sir Francis Drake allied with ___________ or communities of enslaved people, to raid Spanish colonies in the late sixteenth century.

Answer: Maroons

300 Points

400 Points

Question: British royal officials initially agreed to ban enslavement in _________, during the colony’s founding.

Answer: Georgia

500 Points

Question: The _____________, a British company that bought and sold captive Africans, had James I of England and John Locke as stockholders with controlling interests.

Answer: Royal African Company

100 Points

Question: The White abolitionist __________________, proposed immediate emancipation for enslaved people of African descent gradually achieved.

Answer: William Lloyd Garrison

200 Points

Question: Founded in Boston in 1830, the _____________ was the first interracial abolitionist organization in America.

Answer: American Anti-Slavery Society

300 Points

Question: This Black abolitionist advocated that people of African descent use violence if necessary to attain their freedom.

Answer: David Walker

400 Points

Question: _____________ , or playing to people’s emotions about the wrong of enslavement, is the method by which White abolitionists tried to convince White Americans of the wrong of enslavement.

Answer: moral suasion

500 Points

Question: Published by William Lloyd Garrison, Boston abolitionists used the newspaper called ______________ to promote their anti-slavery agenda.

Answer: The Liberator

100 Points

Question: This compromise, reached between Southern and Northern delegates to the Constitutional Convention stated that African Americans would be counted as three-fifths of their numbers by the United States census.Answer: Three-Fifths Compromise

200 Points

Question: The United States Constitution avoids using the word _________ to describe unfree African American laborers across the new nation.

Answer: slave/enslaved

300 Points

Question: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was slated to end in the United States in the year ________.

Answer: 1808

400 Points

Question: This 1793 Act made it more difficult for enslaved people to escape enslavement.

Answer: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

500 Points

Question: Southern congressional representation increased after the ratification of the Constitution because the enslaved population ___________. No other New World colony or country with an enslaved population accomplished this feat. Answer: increased

100 Points

Question: 1791 event where the enslaved population of the French colony of St. Domingue rose up against the master class, defeated them and established a modern Caribbean nation.

Answer: Haitian Revolution

200 Points

Question: This called for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and the drawing of an invisible line at the 36° 30′ north parallel to determine where enslavement would be allowed. Answer: Missouri Compromise

300 Points

Question: This organization, made up of abolitionists, politicians and slave owners established an American colony in Liberia, West Africa to which African Americans were expected to repatriate upon gaining their freedom.Answer: American Colonization Society

400 Points

Question: This enslaved Virginia freedom fighter planned and executed an attempt at gaining the liberty of his enslaved compatriots and himself and was executed for it.

Answer: Gabriel

500 Points

Question: The capital of the American colony of Liberia, West Africa, named after the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe.

Answer: Monrovia