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
Owning of human beings as property able to be bought, sold, given, and inherited, is known as.....
What is chattel slavery?
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
A self-emancipated person who lived in an independent community outside of the influence of slavery. These communities had to maintain their independence through secrecy, and often fought pre-emptive wars against colonizers to remain free.
Who are maroons?
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 former enslaved woman became a Union spy and led a raid along the Combahee River, freeing over 700 enslaved people. She is also known as the Moses of her people.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
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
Spirituals often contained hidden messages or themes meant to communicate resistance or a desire for freedom. Name a common theme or coded message found in many spirituals.
What is "Drinking Gourd" (the Big Dipper, which pointed toward the North), "Pharaoh" (symbolizing the oppressive system), "Chariot" (symbolizing deliverance or freedom), or "Deliverance" (the hope of freedom or the Promised Land - northern states, Canada, etc.)?
200
Latinized Black people who were born or raised in Spain, Portugal or these nations' Atlantic or American colonies and who spoke fluent Spanish or Portuguese
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
A free black man who was captured and sold to slavery in Louisiana for 12 years. He published an influential abolitionist book, "12 Years a Slave," which was eventually adapted into a fim.
Who is Solomon Northrup?
300
The central slave-trading hub in British North America (later the U.S.). About 48% of enslaved Africans brought to North America disembarked here.
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
300
A heavily forested area on the Virginia-North Carolina border that served as a refuge for fugitive slaves during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was the largest maroon community in the United States.
What is the Great Dismal Swamp?
300
The push to emigrate back to Africa or go elsewhere where Africans could be free and self-determining.
What is emigrationism?
300
Executive (Presidential) Order issued in 1863, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union. Did not affect enslaved people held in the border states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Jacob Lawrence created this series about the Haitian Revolution entitled The Life of ____________
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
400
Marks the end of slavery in the last state of rebellion—Texas. It commemorates the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed that they were free by a Union general’s reading of General Order No. 3. This order was the first document to mention racial equality through “an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves."
What is Juneteenth?
400
What is Fort Mose?
400
What are two examples of African American and Indigenous relations?
Some indigenous groups enslaved Africans, some groups like the Seminoles treated the maroons around them like kin, some indigenous nations adopted slave codes and created slave patrols
400
"That which is born follows the womb" - Name & Meaning
What is Partus Sequitur Ventrem? Children would inherit the status of the mother
500
I am an abolitionist who believed that armed resistance was necessary to end slavery. In 1859, I led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, hoping to spark a widespread slave rebellion. Though my raid was unsuccessful, my actions and eventual execution made me a martyr for the abolitionist cause. Who am I? and how did this change people's views about the abolitionist movement?
Who is John Brown?
His raid polarized the nation, inspiring many abolitionists to see him as a courageous freedom fighter, while others—particularly in the South—saw him as a symbol of the threat abolitionism posed to their way of life. His actions intensified the national conversation on slavery and hastened the divide that led to the Civil War.
500
Reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed Back people back to Africa, this organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves. The organization's goal was not to free enslaved people, but only to remove those who were already free. Many of its members were slaveholders.
What is the American Colonization Society?
500
18th century leader of the Jamaican Maroons (formerly enslaved Africans). The Maroons fought a guerrilla war against the British in Jamaica.
Who is Queen Nanny?
500
A blend of African dance, martial arts, and call-and-response singing sometimes referred to as "Brazilian Jiu Jitsu."
What is capoeira?
500
The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States with one major exception. What is the exception?
What is the exception allowing involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, which led to practices like convict leasing and disproportionately affected African Americans?