The crop that became the economic mainstay of colonial Virginia and Maryland.
What is tobacco?
100
The primary cash crop grown along the coastal waterways of South Carolina and Georgia.
What was cotton?
100
Fear of this punishment drove slaves to do their work and to cooperate among themselves for mutual protection.
What is whipping or flogging?
100
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
Was a part of the an oral tradition that was passed down from generation to generation.
What is African Literature?
200
Primitive, poorly furnished, and often temporary.
What is housing for slaves?
200
Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 making the cultivation of cotton profitable on the North American mainland.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This custom although European in its roots was often a part of slave marriages.
What is jumping the broom?
200
A series of rigid anti-Black laws.
What were Jim Crow laws?
300
This empire became powerful mainly through its commerce.
What is the empire of Ghana?
300
Running away, refusing to work and breaking tools.
What are forms of slave resistance?
300
75 percent of the slave workforce in the 19th century consisted of this type of slave labor.
What is field hands?
300
In addition to the family, the most important black community institutions.
What were churches?
300
The network of church-related voluntary organizations designed to fight sin and save souls in the antebellum era.
What was the Benevolent Empire?
400
The triangular journey from England to Africa then from Africa to the Americas, and finally from the Americas back to England.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
In the aftermath of the American Revolution the place where most newly freed African Americans live?
What is Chesapeake?
400
House servant's (slaves) jobs were considered more stressful than field hands' job because of this factor.
What is closer white supervision?
400
The most popular religious denomination among antebellum free African Americans.
What was African Methodist Episcopal?
400
An American slave who led a slave rebellion in Southampton, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths.
Who was Nat Turner?
500
Portuguese and other European and white Americans who succeeded them did not capture and enslave people themselves but where purchased from them.
What are African traders?
500
This fugitive slave was described by Samuel Adams as the first martyr to British oppression for his role in the so-called Boston Massacre of 1770.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
500
This group of slaves were considered more elite than house slaves and included slave carpenters, blacksmiths and millwrights.
What were skilled slaves?
500
The geographic area where did the greatest number of free African Americans lived in 1860.
What was the North?
500
The term used to describe anyone who favored doing away with slavery in the United States.