Said that the problem of the 20th century is the color line
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
100
The economic system that created slavery
What is capitalism?
100
First British settlement in the U.S. (year and place)
What is Jamestown, 1619?
100
Name one of the major crops grown by slaves
What is sugar cane/tobacco/cotton?
100
The idea that the United States is the best country in the world
What is American Exceptionalism?
200
Said "With 50 men we could subjugate them all"?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
A French word that means upper class according to Marxist class theory
What is the bourgeoisie?
200
Sorrow songs
What are the blues?
200
The imperial power that initiated the slave trade
What is Portugal
200
An action aimed at destroying wholly or partially a national, racial or religious group or society
What is genocide?
300
The leader of an important class rebellion in colonial Virginia (first and last name)
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
300
Lower class according to Marxist theory
What is the proletariat?
300
Name one difference between slavery in Africa and slavery in Europe
What is they had rights/not lifelong/not morally crippling/not destructive of family ties/not without hope
300
Slave plantations in the Spanish territories
What are encomiendas?
300
Subjugation of one group by another to perform work or services without pay or compensation
What is slavery?
400
Priest who documented the cruelty of the Spanish conquistadores
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
400
German theorist who wrote a theory of capitalism and class struggle
Who is Karl Marx?
400
What proportion of slaves died on the death marches?
What is 2/5?
400
Three reasons why black slaves replaced the natives as slaves
What are cheap, plentiful, and easily identifiable?
400
A set of ideas/views on society firmly held by a group
What is ideology?
500
Said of slavery that you can make $257 profit on every Negro in a year and only spend $12 or $13
Who is James Madison?
500
In the reading on "Society and Ideology," this was considered "a tactic of [capitalist] self-preservation."
What is reform?
500
These two factors made American slavery the cruelest form of slavery in history
What is the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture and the reduction of slave to less than human status by the use of racial hatred?
500
This was the height between decks on the typical slave ship
What is eighteen inches?
500
The production of intended effects OR the ability to achieve purpose