Slavery in America
The name of the passage where slaves were brought from Africa to America under horrible conditions.
What is the Middle Passage?
The name of the Native Americans living outside Jamestown.
Who are the Powhatan?
The year John Cabot claimed the Eastern part of America for England.
What is 1497?
The European country that brought the least amount of slaves to the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is England?
The word written on a tree in Roanoke.
What is Croatoan?
The first year that Roanoke was settled.
What is 1585?
The first place where slaves were brought to America.
What is Jamestown?
Reasons why people from Europe would want to settle in America. (Give me four for a correct answer)
1. Opportunity to own land
2. Political Freedom
3. Personal Riches
4. Excitement and Adventure
5. English Domination
6. National Wealth
7. Religious Freedom
The year Jamestown was established.
What is 1607?
The three reasons why slavery in America is different than slavery throughout history.
1. Based on the color of your skin
2. Kidnapped from your home
3. No chance to earn freedom
The first representative assembly in America.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The year the Virginia House of Burgesses was established.
What is 1619?
The first year that slaves were brought to America.
What is 1619?
Representatives of the people.
What is burgesses?
The year that Roanoke vanished.
What is 1590?