Vocabulary
People
Events
Previous Units
Riddles
100
This describes the journey of African slaves from Africa to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
100
Who is this free man drugged and sold into slavery for 12 years?
Who is Solomon Northup?
100
This 1820 federal act determined where slavery could expand throughout the United States
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
The Kingdom found in Nubia (to the South of Egypt) along the Nile is normally called this name
What is Kush?
100
This everyday item must be broken before you can use it.
What is a egg?
200
This current American state was the location of the first African slaves brought to America
What is Virginia?
200
This African played a key role as a conquistador during Spanish exploration, showing the different jobs that Free Africans could have in the New World
Who is Juan Garrido?
200
This 1854 act resulted in increased tensions between free states and slave states
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
The migration of these people is considered the most influential movement of Africans, as traditions and languages from these people are still in existence today
What is the Bantu Migration?
200
I have many keys but no locks.
What is a keyboard?
300
The name of the African translators who played a crucial role in the relationship between native tribes and their Iberian colonizers?
What are Ladinos?
300
An enslaved healer from Morocco, this man would spend time in the Americas, hoping to one day earn his freedom by working with the Spanish
(I will accept either name)
Who is Esteban (Estevanico)?
300
This year marks the first year that an African slave is recorded in what would become the United States
What is 1619?
300
The Northernmost and Southernmost tips of Africa share this climate zone that was familiar to many Europeans
What is the Mediterranean Zone?
300
I travel around the world while staying in a corner
What is a stamp?
400
The Carolina's Gullah Creole language was created as a result of this type the lack of supervision given in this system of enslavement
What is the task system?
400
Oliver Lewis became known in 1875 because he was the first person to be victorious in a now traditional American pastime
What is the Kentucky Derby?
400
This city would be the primary location for enslaved persons to enter the United States
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
400
This ancient African Kingdom was located in modern day Angola
What is the Kingdom of Kongo?
400
The more you take, the more you leave behind
What are footsteps?
500
The first step of understanding the African Slave trade is the existence of various
What are Coastal Dungeons?
500
This famous American actor and TV presenter not only participated in the groundbreaking ABC mini-series Roots, but also served as the host of Reading Rainbow, a free public access show designed to help teach young children to read
(I will accept either his name or the name of his character from Roots)
Who is LeVar Burton (Kunta Kinte)?
500
Argued by former President John Quincy Adams, the status of this slave ship divided the United States, this 1841 Supreme Court Case against the US government challenged perceptions surrounding freedom for enslaved persons in the United States
(I will accept the name of the ship by itself as the answer)
The Amistad
500
These storytellers preserved African oral traditions, and to this day perform songs which help carry the history of ancient Africa
What are Griots (Griottes if they are women)?
500
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind
What is an echo?