1619 Project
1619 was the year when ...
the first enslaved Africans came to the US (Virginia)
Before the arrival of the Portuguese around 1600, Africans, Arabs, Indians, and Southeast Asians traded peacefully in the ...
Indian Ocean
The French Revolution's slogan was ...
liberty, equality, and fraternity
The first British colony where sugar plantations were widespread in the 1600s was ...
Barbados
In Arabia in the late 1700s, this man preached a return to the pure monotheist faith of Islam as taught by the Prophet Muhammad in the 600s.
Ibn abd al-Wahhab
Author who argues that Black Americans are as much the Founding Fathers as those White men whose names we study in school ...
Nikole Hannah-Jones
In 1701, a law banning the import of fine dyed or printed calicoes from China, India, and Persia was passed by ...
the English Parliament
This 18th century French philosopher argued that humans think they are very important, but in fact they are as small and unimportant as ants when seen from a distance. Because of this, we should be tolerant of one another.
Voltaire
In 1657, ________________ wrote that sugar plantations were so profitable to British planters in the Caribbean that they could make 100,000 pounds sterling before retiring to England to live in comfort on their profits.
Richard Ligon
In the late 1700s, this Muslim scholar created an empire in the west African region of northern Nigeria. ...
Usman dan Fodio
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were all signed into law during
Reconstruction
The Chinese Ming admiral Zheng He's ships sailed as far away as
Kenya, East Africa
This same philosopher also wrote a well-known play against the founder of a major religion. The founder and the religion were ...
the Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam
The sugar trade, using slave labor, was so profitable to European and US planters that Khalil Muhammad, a writer for the 1619 project, calls it ....
white gold
This Zulu leader established a powerful state in southern Africa in what later came to be known as Zimbabwe.
Shaka
In "Mass Incarceration," we learned that although the US has 4% of the world's population, it has .... % of the incarcerated.
22
This man stole so many precious objects from India that he was able to create a museum back in his own country to display them.
Robert Clive
Before the Revolution, French society was divided into three groups or .... The top two paid no taxes, and became very rich.
estates
Today, Americans consume twice as much sugar and sugary products as recommended by the Department of Agriculture, at _________ pounds per year.
77
When in 1694 Captain Phillips went to Whydah in West Africa to purchase slaves, the king wanted _______________ and _____________ in return.
cowries and brass
Although Thomas Jefferson stated in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal," the enslaved population in the 13 colonies was ____ of the population at the time.
20%
The author of the article "What If? The Chinese Discovery..." wonders what would have happened if the Chinese had crossed the Cape of Good Hope and encountered the ships of ....in the 1430s. Would our history have been entirely different?
Henry the Navigator
Inspired by the French Revolution, this French colony in the Caribbean sought independence in 1791-1804. Its French name was ... and its leader was ...
Saint-Domingue ... Toussaint l'Ouverture
In the US, the state of ____________ led the country in destroying the lives of Black people, with deaths exceeding births, on account of the harshness of labor conditions on sugar plantations.
Louisiana
In Mali, West Africa, a great center of trade which enjoyed a reputation for Islamic learning arose in the city of ......
Timbuktu