African American History 1619-1850

Question 1

What is “The Peculiar Institution”?

Answer 1

Plantation system introduced

after 20 West Africans were brought to Jamestown 1619

Question 2

What is the Middle Passage?

Answer 2

triangular trade system

journey of slaves from Africa > Carribean and North US plantations

Question 3

What triangular trade sstem was established in the 17th century?

Answer 3

EU goods (guns, knives, tools) > Africa
Africa slaves > US
US goods (rum, sugar, rice, cotton) > EU

Question 4

Which staple crops were planted by the slaves on plantations in Southern North America?

Answer 4

idigo
rice
sugar
cotton
tobacco

Question 5

Which colony was the first one to offically recongize slavery?

Answer 5

Massachusetts

Question 6

Which colony and why was the first one to ban the import of slaves?

Answer 6

Pennsylvania

Leader William Penn Quaker-thinking

Question 7

Which clause in the orginial draft was omitted in the actual Declaration of Independence?

Answer 7

anti-slavery clause

Question 8

What was the role of Blacks during the Civil War?

Answer 8

5,000 black soldiers fight on American Side

Question 9

Which state was the first one to abolish slavery?

Answer 9

Vermont

Question 10

Which state granted freedom to all slaves who fought against BR in War of Independence?

Answer 10

Virginia

Question 11

What were indentured servants?

Answer 11

People who want to immigrate but can’t pay passage
> master pays for passage
> servants have to work for masters for some time to pay off
> then free

Question 12

What were manumitted slaves?

Answer 12

Slaves freed by master

Question 13

Which insitution did free blacks establish in the North?

Answer 13

African Methodist Episcopial Church (A.M.E.)

Question 14

How are slaves seen in the United States Consitution?

Answer 14

slaves as property

Question 15

Which invention by whom required in 1793 even more slaves?

Answer 15

Invention of cotton gin

by Eli Whitney

Question 16

What happened in Gabriel’s Rebellion in 1800?

Answer 16

not successful rebellion

1000 slaves plan to attack Richmond, Virginia

Question 17

When did African slave trade officially end?

Answer 17

1808

Question 18

What was used instead of importing slaves?

Answer 18

slave breeding

grwoth of the domestic slave trade

Question 19

What did the Slave Codes say?

Answer 19

slaves are not allowed to learn how to read and write

brutal punishment for misbehavior

Question 20

How and why was Liberia founded in West Africa?

Answer 20

The American Colonization Society establishes terrioty of Liberia for free or manumited blacks

Question 21

What did Nat Turner do?

Answer 21

revolt in Virginia

later hanged

Question 22

When was the Abolitionist Movement?

Answer 22

1830s to 1860s

Question 23

What was the underground railroad?

Answer 23

white abolitionists establish system

houses for shelter as stations to make their way to the North

Question 24

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 24

black slave using the underground railroad and helping hundreds of other slaves

Question 25

What did the Dred Scott decision by the US SUpreme Court decide?

Answer 25

opens federal (western) territory to slaver 
denies citizenship to black Americans

Question 26

Name some important African AMerican Writing

Answer 26

Frederick Douglass
Harriet Stowe
Phillis Wheatly
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Wilson