Africa to America🌍
Colonial Slavery & Slavery in the 19th Century
Free Blacks in the North & Prelude to War
Civil War, Jim Crow, & Civil Rights
Presentations
100

T/F - Africa is the largest continent in the world

False
100

19th century slave rebellions illustrated what?

That slaves were not content in slavery
100

Who was the founder of A.M.E?

Rev. Richard Allen


100

President _________ was lenient towards southern whites.

Andrew Johnson

100

Madam C.J. Walker gained her wealth by inventing what?

Hair products

200

Slavery was almost always thought of as a substitution for ______

Death

200

What 2 states freed slaves during the American Revolution?

Vermont and Massachusetts

200

Benjamin Banneker was a famous _____ and ____?

Mathematician and Astronomer
200

What state tried to forbid black people from moving there?

Indiana

200

What was Martin Luther King originally named?

Michael

400

Slow work, breaking tools, pretending not to understand instructions, and faking illnesses are all examples of what kind of resistance?

Passive

400

How many slaves were carried from the upper South into the deep South in the antebellum period?

1,000,000

400

Approximately how many African Americans lived in the Mid-West in 1860?

65,000
400

How many black people were lynched between 1860-1890?

5,000

400

Billie Holiday was called "The Nation's Most ________"

Celebrated drug addict


600

______ was the first black American Republic to gain their freedom in 1804

🇭🇹Haiti🇭🇹

600

In 1770, black people made up what percent of the total population in the North?

5%

600

How many years of peace did the Compromise of 1850 bring?

10

600

What were the 4 out of the 8 states on the fence that joined the Confederacy?

Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas

600

What U.S President appointed Mary McLeod Bethune to attend the founding conference of the United Nations?

President Truman

800

What was the name of the African-born slave who bought his freedom and moved to Britain to help slavery?

Olaudah Equiano

800
What were the four pro-slavery arguments?

Biblical, Social, Historical, and Political

800

Fill in the blank: Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared that blacks, even if they are free ____________

could not be citizens of the United States.

800

Most southern states put segregation into law in the ____s and the early ____s

1890s and 1900s

800
How long and wide was the attic that Harriet Ann Jacobs stayed in?

9 feet long & 7 feet wide