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Midterms Pt. 2 Flashcards

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1
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True or False; Colonists used Native Americans prior to chattel slavery

A

True

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2
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What happened during 1526 in America?

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First slave rebellion in the United States; Many escaped to be with Native Americans

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3
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When did the 1st African slaves arrive in Jamestown?

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1619; since they were Christians they had to be treated as indentured servants

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4
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When was the 1st instance of an African being declared a slave in American law?

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1640

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5
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What prohibitions did the Negro Act of 1740 enact?

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1) learning to read
2) gathering in large groups
3) earning money
4) playing the drum
5) traveling without a pass

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6
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Why was the Negro Act of 1740 enacted?

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As a result of the Stono Rebellion, in which 100 slaves marched toward freedom in Florida, and killed white colonists along the way

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True or False; the Revolutionary War caused slavery to decline in both the North and the South

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False; it only declined in the North

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8
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What is the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

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  • slaves account for 3/5 of a person

- fugitive slave clause- runaway slaves returned to owners; international slave trade another 20yrs

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9
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True and False: The Nile River flows north to south

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False

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10
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The most common language spoken in Africa is ______

A

French

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11
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The 1st female African president, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, leads which nation?

A

Liberia

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12
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Slavery occurs due to?

A
  • tradition

- a result of war

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13
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________ (along with the ________) traveled to South America

A

Africans

Chinese

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14
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What is the tech capital of the world?

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Ruwanda

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15
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What are 6 things Africa did right?

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1) managing economies better
2) debt relief
3) government seperating from enterprising
4) increase in mobile technology
5) conflicts defused
6) Vaccination

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16
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What are 8 things Africa did wrong?

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1) not enough jobs
2) low quality of growth
3) inequality increased
4) the proportion of poverty decrease but the population grew
5) didn’t invest enough in infastructure
6) economies retain the same structure
7) governors, weak or non-existent institutions lead to corruption
8) lack of education/ new conflicts (like terrorism)

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17
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What was the last country to abolish slavery?

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Brazil

18
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Which country has the largest number of people of African descent outside of Africa?

A

Brazil

19
Q

What happened in 1441?

A

Portuguese capture Africans and send to Portugal

20
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What happened in 1510?

A

Spain began sending slaves to Americas

21
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What happened in 1641?

A

Massachusetts Bay Colony legalized slavery

22
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What happened in 1661?

A

Rhode Island created a system that let slaves go after a few years; it was resended

23
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What happened in 1663?

A

Virginia law stated that, a child born to enslaved mother was a slave

24
Q

What happened in 1772?

A

Revolutionary War

25
Q

What happened in 1782?

A

Quakers freed slaves, and helped push Abolitionist movement

26
Q

What happened in 1794?

A

Cotton Gin

27
Q

What happened in 1808?

A

U.S. outlawed the importation of slaves

28
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During the Revolutionary War what did the British promise Blacks, and on what conditions?

A

Freed Blacks who fought with them

29
Q

True or False: Washington was eager to use blacks during the Revolutionary War

A

False; Washington in the beginning was against blacks in the army

30
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How many black soldiers were used in the Revolutionary War?

A

5,000

31
Q

What happened in 1777?

A

Vermont outlawed slavery in state Constitution

32
Q

What is the difference between colonialism and imperialism?

A

colonialism-invasion of another person’s land

imperialism- economic and political control of a country without the invasion

33
Q

______ and _____ were racists. While ________ and ____ _______ were abolitionists.

A

Hume
Kant
Beattie
Von Herder

34
Q

_________ ______ was born a slave in the north

A

Sojourner Truth

35
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Federick Douglass was hired as a lecturer by which abolitionist society?

A

American Anti-Slavery Society

36
Q

Johann Von Herder was:

a) Neither a student of Kant’s nor focused on Africans’ sensuality
b) A student of Emanuel Kant
c) Both a student of Kant’s and focused on Africans’ sensuality
d) Focused on the African’s sensual dfferences

A

Both a student of Kant’s and focused on Africans’ sensuality

37
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The first European country that explored Africa?

A

Portugese

38
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The first European country to ban slavery?

A

Great Britain

39
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The first European country to import slaves?

A

Spain

40
Q

The European country that hosted the conference in 1885?

A

Germany

41
Q

Which European country never colonized Africa?

A

Turkey

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