Transatlantic Slave Trade
Native Societies
African American Culture
Important Dates
African Americans in the Age of Revolution
100

Africans were uprooted from Africa and traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to various countries in which they were enslaved. What was this movement nicknamed as?

What was the Middle Passage?

100

Escaped African Americans who were previously enslaved fled south and integrated into indigenous societies to fight for their freedom. What were these groups called?

What are Maroon Societies?

100

Harriet Tubman, an extremely profound figure within African American history fought for the freedom of the entirety of the race as a whole. What was her nickname?

Who was Black Moses?

100

Following multiple years of international pressure, morality debates, and growing abolitionist movement, The U.S. put legislation into place to end the importation of enslaved Africans. In what year did this occur?

When was 1808?

100

In order to flee the plantations they were held on, African Americans used these secret routes and safehouses to escape

What is the Underground Railroad?

200

The Transatlantic Slave Trade took place between three main areas of the world. What were these three regions?

What are Europe, Africa, and the Americas?

200

Communities such as Maroon societies and Indigenous territories in Brazil are examples of these groups formed by native peoples

What are native societies?

200

The kidnapping of millions of people and the destruction of numerous communities led to widespread political instability in this region during the era of the Transatlantic slave trade.

Where is West Africa?

200

The ratification of the 14th Amendment in this year overturned the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford by granting citizenship and equal protection under the law.

When was 1868?

200

This British Proclamation promised freedom to any enslaved individuals who helped fight for the British side during the American Revolution.

What is the Dunmore Proclamation?

300

Historians estimate that during the Transatlantic slave trade, approximately this many Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas, reflecting the vast scale and human cost of the system.

What is 12 million?

300

This maroon community in Colombia was established by formerly enslaved Africans who escaped from plantations, preserving African cultural traditions and maintaining autonomy from colonial authorities.

What is San Basilio De Palenque?

300

Enslaved Africans in the Americas preserved elements of their cultural heritage through music, storytelling, and religious practices, blending African traditions with new experiences in the Americas. This term describes the survival and adaptation of these cultural practices among African-descended peoples.

What is cultural retention?

300

This is the year in which Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that strongly advocated for American independence and influenced colonial public opinion.

When was 1776?

300

This 1772 British legal case challenged the legality of slavery in England and inspired new legal and social movements against slavery throughout the British Empire.

What is the Somerset Case?

400

European traders often exchanged guns, alcohol, and manufactured goods for enslaved Africans in this system of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

What is triangular trade?

400

This location was where the first maroon community revolted against Spanish colonial authorities in the 1500s, establishing one of the earliest examples of African resistance in the Americas.

Where is Hispaniola?

400

This practice, commonly found in African American musical traditions, demonstrates cultural retention among enslaved Africans by maintaining African patterns of interaction and communal expression.

What is call and response singing?

400

This is the year in which the Louisiana Code Noir was enacted, establishing laws that regulated the lives of enslaved people and codified the legal framework for slavery in the colony.

When was 1724?

400

This settlement, recognized as the first legally sanctioned free Black town in what is now the United States, played an important role in the African American Age of Revolution.

What is Fort Mose?

500

During the Transatlantic slave trade, the northern colonies and later northern states sought this type of goods, produced on a large scale through enslaved labor, to fuel their economies.

What are raw materials?

500

This Native political system united multiple Native groups under a shared constitution, limited internal warfare and later influenced ideas about federalism used by the US. 

What is the Iroquois confederacy?

500

This annual celebration within Black communities across the North involved electing their own kings and governors.

What was Negro Election Day?

500

This is the decade during which Maroon communities in what is now Haiti began to surge, laying the groundwork for later revolts against colonial authorities.

When were the 1750s

500

This massive internal forced migration, occurring between the Upper and Lower South and fueled by the cotton boom, represents the largest movement of enslaved people in United States history. 

What is the Second Middle Passage

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