Lesson 1
Song we listened to in class that showed how music was used to resist slavery.
What is Wade in the Water/Swing Low Sweet Chariot?
Famous speech from Frederick Douglass.
What is "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"
President during the Civil War who proclaimed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Name used for escaped slaves in the North during the Civil War.
What is Contraband?
What the acronym HBCU stands for.
What are Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
Way that slaves escaped slavery.
What is running away?
Name for someone who is against slavery.
A way that African Americans made their voice heard to President Lincoln.
What is writing letters?
Amendment that made slavery illegal in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
Important aspects of life during Reconstruction.
What is Community, Education, and Jobs/Wealth?
A way that slaves slowed down their work.
Break tools, let fire go out, etc.
A way that Free people resisted slavery.
What is writing, speaking, newspapers, letters.
An issue that African Americans were facing during the Civil War.
Multiple Answers.
What are Contraband camps?
Reason Education was important for African Americans during Reconstruction. (Explain why)
Answers Vary
Person who made multiple trips back to the South to free slaves on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Act that was illegal for slaves to do.
The group who won the first couple battles in the Civil War.
Who are the Confederates?
Act that allowed African Americans to join the military.
What is the Second Confiscation Act of 1862?
Job that many African Americans were stuck working after the Civil War.
What is Share Cropping?
An important reference in spirituals. (And explain why it is important)
Water, Israel, Isaiah, etc.
The group "What to the slave is the Fourth of July" was given to.
Who is the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society
Percent of the military that was made up by African Americans by the end of the Civil War.
What is 10%?
How HBCUs helped African Americans.
what are college degrees, alloing them to work more skilled jobs, more money, etc.