Slavery
RESISTANCE
Abolitionist Movement
Emigration
*MISC.*
ICONS
ATLANTIC AFRICANS AND THE SLAVE TRADE
Guerre Civile
BRAIN BREAK - sports edition
100
This invention increased U.S. production, profits, and dependency on cotton as a cash crop.
The Cotton Gin
100
Fear of this happening led to the enactment of slave codes in the South.
Slave revolts.
100
The network of safe houses and escape routes used by enslaved individuals to reach freedom in the North.
Underground Railroad
100
What is called to leave one's own country to settle permanently in another?
Emigration.
100
Advocates of this type of resistance embraced overthrowing slavery through direct action, including revolts and, if necessary, violence to address the daily urgency of living and dying under slavery.
Radical Resistance
100
The underground railroad was a covert network of Black and White abolitionists who provided transportation, shelter, and other resources to help enslaved people fleeing the South resettle in free territories in the U.S. North, Canada, and Mexico in the 19th century. One of the most well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad, after fleeing enslavement, she returned to the South at least 19 times, leading enslaved African Americans to freedom. She sang spirituals to alert enslaved people of plans to leave.
Harriet Tubman
100
Before the 19th century, more people arrived in the Americas from Africa than from any other region by this means.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
100
Thousands of free and enslaved African Americans from the North and South joined the effort to advance the causes of abolition and Black citizenship. For many free and enslaved African American men, service in this army demonstrated their view of themselves as U.S. citizens, despite the inequities they faced.
Union
100
This American tennis player, often regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time, has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
Serena Williams
200
This 17th-century law, defined a child’s legal status based on the status of its mother and held significant consequences for enslaved African Americans.
Partus sequitur ventrem
200
This revolution which was the only uprising of enslaved people that resulted in overturning a colonial, slaveholding government. It transformed a European colony into a Black republic free of slavery and created the second independent nation in the Americas, after the U.S. It inspired uprisings in other African diaspora communities, such as the Louisiana Slave Revolt (1811), one of the largest on U.S. soil, and the Malê Uprising of Muslim slaves (1835), one of the largest revolts in Brazil.
The Haitian Revolution.
200
This amendment abolished slavery?
13th amendment.
200
What were some key places suggested as an option for the emigration of African Americans?
Africa, Upper Canada, Mexico, etc.
200
The abolitionist-inspired movement that fought for the rights of women.
Women's suffrage movement.
200
A free Black musician who was captured and illegally sold into slavery on a cotton plantation in Louisiana, provided an eyewitness account in his narrative, Twelve Years a Slave.
Solomon Northup
200
Their familiarity with multiple languages, cultural norms, and commercial practices granted them a measure of social mobility. These Africans who worked as intermediaries before the predominance of chattel slavery were known as _____________________
What is Ladinos
200
A prolific writer, he wrote a poem after the Civil War to honor Black soldiers, and to counter narratives that minimized their participation in the conflict and ignored the stakes of the war for Black liberty and citizenship.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
200
In 2020, this NBA player led the Los Angeles Lakers to their 17th championship title.
Who is LeBron James? 
300
This defined chattel slavery as a race-based, inheritable, lifelong condition and included restrictions against freedom of movement, congregation, possessing weapons, and wearing fine fabrics, among other activities.
Slave codes.
300
Breaking tools, feigning illness, staging slowdowns, committing acts of arson and sabotage, would be classified as this type of resistance.
Covert Resistance
300
A result of the rising tension between the North and Southern states due to the issue of slavery.
Civil War.
300
What were the arguments FOR the emigration of African Americans back to Africa?
More opportunities in Africa, less discrimination, a closer step toward ending slavery, etc.
300
What court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens so they could not have the rights as free people?
Dredd Scott vs Sandford.
300
She first Black woman in North America to sue for her freedom and win. Soon after, in 1662, the legal doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem was passed by the General Assembly of Virginia and spread throughout the remaining 13 colonies.
Elizabeth Key
300
This African conquistador was born in the Kingdom of Kongo, moved to Lisbon, Portugal. A free man, he became the first known African to arrive in North America when he explored present-day Florida during a Spanish expedition in 1513. He maintained his freedom by serving in the Spanish military forces, participating in efforts to conquer Indigenous populations.
Who is Juan Garrido
300
This wartime order, declared freedom for enslaved people held in the 11 Confederate states still at war against the Union. After the Civil War, legal enslavement of African Americans continued in the border states and did not end until the ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865.
The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation
300
This Portuguese forward, often considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, transferred to Manchester United in 2023 after leaving Juventus.
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo
400
This musical genre, rooted in African traditions, emerged as a significant cultural expression among enslaved individuals in the United States. They were used to resist the dehumanizing conditions and injustice of enslavement, express their creativity, and communicate strategic information, such as plans to run away, warnings, and methods of escape.
Negro Spirituals.
400
Fort Morse, Stono Rebellion, Haitian Revolution, can be described as this type of resistance.
Overt Resistance
400
What was the time span of the abolitionist movement?
1830-1870s
400
What were the arguments AGAINST the emigration of African Americans back to Africa?
Blacks had earned the right to live in the United States, it was an excuse to get rid of free blacks, it would create conflict with the native Africans, etc.
400
Who started the Southampton Insurrection?
Nat Turner.
400
He was an enslaved potter in South Carolina, who exercised creative expression by inscribing short poems on the jars he created on a range of topics including love, family, spirituality, and slavery.
David Drake
400
Forty-eight percent (48%) of all Africans who were brought to the United States directly from Africa landed here, the center of U.S. slave trading.
Charleston, S.C
400
This marks the end of slavery in the last state of rebellion—Texas. It commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed that they were free by Major-General Gordon Granger’s reading of General Order No. 3. This order was the first document to mention racial equality through “an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.”
Juneteenth
400
With a nickname like "Flo-Jo," she set world records in the 100m and 200m sprints that still stand today.
Who is Florence Griffith-Joyner
500
Name three laws from the Black Codes of Louisiana.
ARTICLE I orders that the edict of 1615 be applied to Louisiana, and that all Jews
who may have established their religion there be expelled within three months, under
penalty of confiscation of body and property.
ARTICLE II orders that all slaves in the province be instructed and baptized in the Catholic religion.
ARTICLE III forbids the exercise of any other religion than the Catholic.
ARTICLE IV forbids the employment of any overseer who shall not be a Catholic, under penalty of confiscation of the negroes and punishment of the overseer.
ARTICLE V Orders Sundays and holidays to be regularly observed, and forbids all work by master or slaves, under penalty of confiscation of slaves and punishment of masters. The slaves, however, may be sent marketing.
ARTICLE VI forbids marriage of whites with slaves, and concubi-nage of whites and manumitted or free-born blacks with slaves, and imposes penalties.
ARTICLE VII orders to be observed, for marriages of free persons as well as of slaves, the solemnities of the ordinance of Blois and of the edict of 1639. The consent of the parents of the slave is not necessary, but only that of the master.
ARTICLE VIII forbids curates to celebrate marriages of slaves without consent of the masters, and forbids masters to force their slaves to marry against their will.
ARTICLE IX enacts that children born from the marriages of slaves shall belong to the master of the mother.
ARTICLE X enacts that if the husband be a slave and the wife a free woman, the children shall be free like their mother. If the husband be free and the wife a slave, the children shall be slaves.
500
What act required that escaped slaves should be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state?
Fugitive Slave Act
500
Name five key abolitionists.
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Martin Delany, etc.
500
What country did Thomas Jefferson suggest rebel slaves be emigrated to in his letter to King Rufus?
Sierra Leone.
500
In 1839, enslaved Africans revolted against their captors on a ship named the _.
Amistad
500
He was appointed General Consul and U.S. Minister to Haiti
Frederick Douglass
500
Portugal, Great Britain, France, Spain, and the this European country were the top five enslaving nations involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
The Netherlands
500
Juneteenth was also called _______________
Jubilee Day and Emancipation Day
500
The 2023 Ballon d'Or was awarded to this Argentine forward, marking his record-breaking seventh win.
Who is Lionel Messi
600
The forced removal of Indigenous communities by the U.S. government through made lands available for large-scale cotton production in what is know as......
the Trail of Tears
600
The emancipation from slavery offered by Spanish Florida to slaves fleeing the British colonies inspired this rebellion in South Carolina in 1739. Led by Jemmy, an enslaved man from the Angola region, nearly 100 enslaved African Americans set fire to plantations and marched toward sanctuary in Spanish Florida.
the Stono Rebellion
600
Due to these laws, Frederick Douglass and other formerly enslaved abolitionists were not protected from recapture, even in the North.
the Fugitive Slave Acts
600
This was a White-led organization that drove earlier attempts to colonize parts of Africa in order to relocate free Black people from the U.S.
the American Colonization Society
600
More enslaved Africans disembarked in this South American country than anywhere else in the Americas. Approximately half of the 10 million Africans who survived the Middle Passage landed here, where they were forced to labor in various enterprises such as sugar plantations, gold mines, coffee plantations, cattle ranching, and production of food and textiles for domestic consumption.
Brazil
600
She was the first Black woman to publish a political manifesto, and one of the first American women to give a public address. Her advocacy in the 1830s contributed to the first wave of the feminist movement.
Maria Stewart
600
Enslaved Africans’ cultural contributions in the U.S. varied based on their many different places of origin. The interactions of various African ethnic groups produced multiple combinations of African-based cultural practices within African American communities.
languages and belief systems
600
During the civil war, free Black communities in the North suffered from anti-Black violence initiated by those who opposed Black military service and the possibility of Black citizenship and political equality. Some White working class men, largely this group of immigrants, resented being drafted to fight in the Civil War and rioted against Black neighborhoods.
Irish immigrants
600
Which country hosted the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations?
Ivory Coast
700
The enslaved population grew primarily through this rather than new importations, increasing the supply of enslaved agricultural laborers after the U.S. government formally banned the transatlantic slave trade in 1808.
Childbirth
700
They were Afro-descendants who escaped slavery to establish free communities. During the Haitian Revolution, they disseminated information across disparate groups and organized attacks.
maroons
700
The 13th Amendment did not apply to the nearly 10,000 African Americans enslaved by them. The U.S. government negotiated treaties with these nations to end legal slavery in their territories in 1866, though these treaties did not grant freed men rights as citizens in these territories.
Indigenous nations.
700
He wrote, arguably the most radical of all anti-slavery documents, which caused a great stir when it was published in September of 1829 with its call for slaves to revolt against their masters. He was a free black man originally from the South. ". . .they want us for their slaves, and think nothing of murdering us. . . therefore, if there is an attempt made by us, kill or be killed. . . and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty."
In his Appeal, he rejected the idea of emigration to Africa. He wrote to counter Thomas Jefferson’s arguments in Notes on the State of Virginia—namely that African Americans were inferior by nature, benefitted from slavery, were incapable of self-government, and, if freed, should emigrate.
David Walker
700
This was the first sanctioned free Black town in what is now the U.S.
Fort Mose
700
She wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which became the first narrative published by an enslaved African American woman.
Harriet Jacobs
700
To maintain local dominance and grow their wealth, African leaders sold soldiers and war captives from opposing ethnic groups. In some areas of the Americas, this led to a concentration of former African soldiers, which aided enslaved communities’ ability to do this.
Revolt
700
Initially excluded from serving in the Civil War, African American men were permitted to join the Union Army when this happened.
it faced labor shortages
700
This player pictured here, is Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a right winger for Premier League club West Ham United and the Ghana national team. He happens to be Ms. Blankson's fav!
Mohammed Kudus
800
In the task system, enslaved people worked individually until they met a daily quota, generally with less supervision. The task system was used for the cultivation of crops like rice and indigo. With less oversight, some enslaved people found the autonomy to maintain linguistic practices, such as this creole language that developed in the Carolina Lowcountry.
the Gullah creole language
800
In 1839, more than 30 years after the abolition of the slave trade, a Mende captive from Sierra Leone, Sengbe Pieh, led a group of enslaved Africans in one of the most famous revolts aboard this slave ship.
Amistad
800
These described firsthand accounts of suffering under slavery, methods of escape, and acquiring literacy, with an emphasis on the humanity of enslaved people to advance the political cause of abolition.
Slave narratives
800
African American supporters of emigration and colonization observed the spread of abolition in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1820 to 1860 and advocated building new communities outside the United States. The continuation of slavery and racial discrimination against free Black people
in the U.S. raised doubts about peacefully achieving racial equality in the states.
Dr. Gbaba and his family come from this African country that was a destination for Africans that had been repatriated back to Africa.
Liberia
800
This spiritual was documented and composed by Wallace Willis, a formerly enslaved Black person in Choctaw territory in Mississippi who was displaced to Oklahoma territory during the Trail of Tears.
“Steal Away”
800
This individual became the first African American to publish a book of poetry.
Phillis Wheatley
800
Describe the three-part journey enslaved Africans endured during the slave trade.
1st - captured and marched from interior states to the Atlantic coast. On the coast they waited in crowded, unsanitary dungeons.
2nd - Aboard slave ships Africans were humiliated, beaten, tortured, and raped and suffered from widespread disease and malnourishment. Fifteen percent of captive Africans perished in the Middle Passage.
3rd - at ports in the Americas were quarantined, resold, and transported domestically to distant locations of servitude—a process that could take as much time as the first and middle passages combined.
800
Thousands of free and enslaved African Americans from the North and South joined the Union war effort to advance these causes.
abolition and Black citizenship
800
Soccer is a major passion in South America, and this country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles on the continent. What is the country?
Brazil