People to Know!
Slavery in the Americas
Resistance and Revolts
Culture, Identity, and Community
It's the Law!
100
This African-born conquistador traveled to the Americas with Spanish explorers and is recognized as the first recorded African to arrive in North America.
Who is Juan Garrido?
100
This act of resistance led to the sale of the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. The sale nearly doubled the size of the United States, and the federal government made this land available for the expansion of slavery.
What is the Haitian Revolution
100
Name one common form of everyday (covert) resistance used by enslaved people.
What is working slowly or deliberately, feigning illness, sabotaging tools or equipment, misplacing items, learning to read and write in secret, or sustaining and creating culture?
100
This picture most closely describes this term
What are maroon societies?
100
This Supreme Court decision declared that African Americans, both enslaved and free, could never be U.S. citizens. Chief Justice Taney further ruled that enslaved people were property under the Fifth Amendment, making any law depriving slave owners of their property unconstitutional.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
This person was captured when he was a boy and sold into slavery across Africa, Barbados, and VA. He is widely know for his widely-read autobiography which contains his name (1789)
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
200
This internal slave trade saw the forced relocation of enslaved people from the Upper South to newly established cotton plantations in the Deep South, transforming the economies of both regions.
What is the Second Middle Passage? or the Domestic Slave Trade
200
This rebellion consisted of about 50 enslaved people who marched through Virginia killing nearly 60 white men, women, and children to achieve freedom. The leader of this rebellion was convinced God called him to save his people
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
200
known as “Atlantic creoles" - Africans who worked as intermediaries before the predominance of chattel slavery. Were essential to the efforts of European powers laying claim to Indigenous lands, specifically the Spanish
Who are Ladinos?
200
Slave codes were laws designed to control the lives of enslaved people and limit their freedoms. Name one common restriction imposed by these codes.
What is:
- prohibition on learning to read and write
- restrictions on movement without a pass
-bans on gathering in groups
- curfews
-prohibitions on owning weapons
-a requirement for permission to marry
- severe punishments for attempting escape
- restrictions on practicing certain religions
300
The first African American to publish a book of poetry
Who is Phillis Wheatly?
300
The number of enslaved individuals kidnapped from Africa and brought into the United States.
What is approximately 400,000 (more specifically 388,000 or 5%)?
300
What is Fort Mose?
300
Enslaved people worked individually until they met a daily quota. Due to less supervision, African Americans developed culture and linguistic practices while working
What is the task system?
300
"that which is born follows the womb" - Name & Meaning
What is Partus Sequitur Ventrem? Children would inherit the status of the mother
400
Jacob Lawrence created this series about the Haitian Revolution entitled The Life of ____________
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
400
Slave narratives written by people like Wheatly, Equiano, and Northrup, are important because they do these three things. Need all three
What are literary works, historical accounts, and political texts?
400
Twenty years after their revolt, this event led to the imposition of reparations but not for who you may think. Be sure to mention who was owed reparations
What is Haiti? What is France?
400
a formerly enslaved person who wrote: "They told a tale which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones, loud, long and deep, breathing the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains." Be sure to mention what is being described in the passage
Who is Fredrick Douglass? What are spirituals?
400
This state's slave code allowed for the following:
"marriages, shall be observed both with regard to free persons and to slaves.
Makes it imperative on masters to impart religious instruction to their slaves.
Permits the exercise of the Roman Catholic creed only. Every other mode of worship is prohibited."
What is the Louisiana Slave Code AKA Code Noir?
500
The artist who created the artwork below. Include the decade the work was created as well
Who is Willie Cole in the 1990s?
500
The two groups of people who were displaced due to the growth of the cotton industry in the United States. You must also explain how (or name) how this occurred.
Who are the Native Americans via the Trail of Tears and the African Americans via the Second Middle Passage?
500
The Haitian Revolution heavily inspired this revolt/rebellion by enslaved individuals in the U.S (there are two but just looking for 1 answer)
What is the Louisiana Revolt (German Coast Uprising) OR Denmark Vesey Revolt
500
an enslaved chef at Monticello who brought mac and cheese into the U.S ultimately creating this staple of American cuisine
Who is James Hemings?
500
The first time the word "slave" or "slavery" appears in the Constitution.
What is the 13th Amendment?