Slavery
What did abolitionist want?
They wanted slavery to be illegal.
Why did farmers in the south want to keep slavery legal?
The southern farmers thought their farms would not survive without slaves.
Why do we not have a lot of African history?
Did not use writing to record their history and much of it was lost to the West.
What was the Dutch settlement called located at the bottom of South Africa?
Cape Colony
Did everyone on your team brush their teeth last night? Double the points if someone flossed!
100 points or 200 points
What English religious group insisted slavery should end?
The Quakers
After slavery ended in England, what happened to the planters?
They went bankrupt.
What was the name of the trading post the English merchants built?
Durban
What does the word Boers mean in Dutch?
Farmers
Did Wilber Wilberforce die before slavery was made illegal?
No, he died three days after the law was voted on and passed in 1833.
In the US, what did the US Consitution say about slaves?
Slaves were not really people :(
What did William Wilberforce ask of the British Parliament?
Asked to outlaw slavery.
What was Shaka's reasoning behind changing the weapons the army used once he took control of his father's kingdom?
So that they would have to fight their enemy face to face using short stabbing spears instead of long spears they would throw.
What did slaves do in the colony the Dutch ruled?
Helped to run the Dutch farms.
In Britain, how many years did it take to make slavery illegal from the time a law (no buying and selling) was passed in 1807?
26 years to outlaw slavery
According to the US Constitution, how were slaves counted?
5 slaves would count as 3 people
What law was passed int England and the US during the early 1800s in regards to slavery?
Laws were passed that said they could not buy slaves in Africa and sell them elsewhere.
What did Africans call the ten year period which Shaka spread his rule throughout the continent?
Time of Troubles
How did the Boers guarantee a victory against the Zulus?
Promised Mpande that they would make him king of the Zulus if he would fight on their side.
Who took control of Natal from the Dutch?
Why did the northern US delegates agree to how the slaves were counted in each state?
There were more slaves in the south, and they didn't want the south to have more representation in the government than the did.
With slavery outlawed, what are three products the US provide for England when they could no longer provide it for themselves?
sugar
coffee
cotton
tobacco
Who killed Shaka?
His own half-brothers
Who established the nations of Orange Free State and Transvaal Republic?
The Dutch/Boers
What happened to Shaka when his mother died?
He went mad.