African Empires
The area of Africa where the empires we learned about were concentrated (think North,South,East,West)
What is West(ern) Africa?
Neighborhood in Philadelphia that is the namesake for an anti-slavery petition written in the 1600s
What is Germantown?
This was the name for the agreement that dealt with whether or not enslaved peoples should be counted in the census
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
This religion was adopted by the region in an effort to strengthen ties with the Arab world.
What is Islam?
This man was the conductor of the Philadelphia Underground Railroad.
Who is William Still?
This was the name of a device used that exponentially increased the production of cotton, and in turn, extended the life of slavery in the US.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This Empire succeeded the Mali Empire
Who are the Songhai?
Where John Brown's raid occurred.
What is Harper's Ferry?
This complaint was left out of the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Slavery Grievance?
This Empire predated the Mali Empire
What is the Ghana Empire or Wagadu Empire?
This man was the creator of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator"
William Lloyd Garrison
This was the name of a sea-trade route that brought enslaved peoples to North America
What is the Middle-Passage?
He was a famous leader of the Mali Empire, legend has it that he collapsed the economy of Cairo by handing out gold to the local population during a visit
Who is Mansa Musa?
This was the location of Nat Turner's rebellion. (Just the state is not good enough)
What is Southampton County, Virginia?
This pre-revolutionary war conflict kicked off the United States' transition into a race-based slavery system.
What was is Bacon's Rebellion?
What year was the Philadelphia Student Demonstration that we learned about in the beginning of this school year?
(200 Bonus Points: Who was the police commissioner then?)
1967 (Frank Rizzo)