Transatlantic Slave Trade
Africans were uprooted from Africa and traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to various countries in which they were enslaved. What was this movement nicknamed as?
What was the Middle Passage?
Escaped African Americans who were previously enslaved fled south and integrated into indigenous societies to fight for their freedom. What were these groups called?
What are Maroon Societies?
Harriet Tubman, an extremely profound figure within African American history fought for the freedom of the entirety of the race as a whole. What was her nickname?
Who was Black Moses?
Following multiple years of international pressure, morality debates, and growing abolitionist movement, The U.S. put legislation into place to end the importation of enslaved Africans. In what year did this occur?
When was 1808?
In order to flee the plantations they were held on, African Americans used these secret routes and safehouses to escape
What is the Underground Railroad?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade took place between three main areas of the world. What were these three regions?
What are Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
Communities such as Maroon societies and Indigenous territories in Brazil are examples of these groups formed by native peoples
What are native societies?
The kidnapping of millions of people and the destruction of numerous communities led to widespread political instability in this region during the era of the Transatlantic slave trade.
Where is West Africa?
The ratification of the 14th Amendment in this year overturned the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford by granting citizenship and equal protection under the law.
When was 1868?
This British Proclamation promised freedom to any enslaved individuals who helped fight for the British side during the American Revolution.
What is the Dunmore Proclamation?
Historians estimate that during the Transatlantic slave trade, approximately this many Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas, reflecting the vast scale and human cost of the system.
What is 12 million?
This maroon community in Colombia was established by formerly enslaved Africans who escaped from plantations, preserving African cultural traditions and maintaining autonomy from colonial authorities.
What is San Basilio De Palenque?
Enslaved Africans in the Americas preserved elements of their cultural heritage through music, storytelling, and religious practices, blending African traditions with new experiences in the Americas. This term describes the survival and adaptation of these cultural practices among African-descended peoples.
What is cultural retention?
This is the year in which Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that strongly advocated for American independence and influenced colonial public opinion.
When was 1776?
This 1772 British legal case challenged the legality of slavery in England and inspired new legal and social movements against slavery throughout the British Empire.
What is the Somerset Case?
European traders often exchanged guns, alcohol, and manufactured goods for enslaved Africans in this system of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is triangular trade?
This location was where the first maroon community revolted against Spanish colonial authorities in the 1500s, establishing one of the earliest examples of African resistance in the Americas.
Where is Hispaniola?
This practice, commonly found in African American musical traditions, demonstrates cultural retention among enslaved Africans by maintaining African patterns of interaction and communal expression.
What is call and response singing?
This is the year in which the Louisiana Code Noir was enacted, establishing laws that regulated the lives of enslaved people and codified the legal framework for slavery in the colony.
When was 1724?
This settlement, recognized as the first legally sanctioned free Black town in what is now the United States, played an important role in the African American Age of Revolution.
What is Fort Mose?
During the Transatlantic slave trade, the northern colonies and later northern states sought this type of goods, produced on a large scale through enslaved labor, to fuel their economies.
What are raw materials?
This Native political system united multiple Native groups under a shared constitution, limited internal warfare and later influenced ideas about federalism used by the US.
What is the Iroquois confederacy?
This annual celebration within Black communities across the North involved electing their own kings and governors.
What was Negro Election Day?
This is the decade during which Maroon communities in what is now Haiti began to surge, laying the groundwork for later revolts against colonial authorities.
When were the 1750s
This massive internal forced migration, occurring between the Upper and Lower South and fueled by the cotton boom, represents the largest movement of enslaved people in United States history.
What is the Second Middle Passage