What purpose did the slaves serve in most civilizations
What is manual labor and sometimes held skilled jobs
100
In ancient times it was not uncommon for an owner to free his or her slaves. This act was known as
What is manumission
100
Why might many ancient societies have practiced slavery?
What is cheap source of manual labor
100
What was the Triangular slave trade?
What is a trade system in which good and slaves were exchanged between Europe, Africa and the Americas.
100
How were African kingdoms affected by the African slave trade?
What is it was hurt by the loss of people in the villages. by the warfare to slaves.
200
What were the conditions like on the Middle passage?
What is dark, crowded, unsanitary,little food and no exercise and long
200
To slaves in line, colonial governments implemented laws that called for harsh punishments such as;
What is a whippings, burnings, amputations, and hangings
200
Soon European colonists established mines and huge farms.
What is plantations
200
The scattering of Africans was called
What is African Diaspora
200
The captive Africans were transported across the Middle Passage on ships called
What is slavers
300
In 1793, a northerner named _________invented a machine that helped remove the cotton seeds
What is Eli Whitney, cotton gin
300
The ________________ ___________was a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production
What is Industrial Revoluation
300
The period before the Civil War, slave traders met the growing demand for slave labor by importing new slaves from Africa and Caribbean. This period was called
What is Antbellum Period
300
Under the leadership of Andrew Johnson legistlature begin quickly passing discriminatory laws against African Americans
What is Black codes
300
Which of the amendments made slavery illegal thoughout the entire United States in 1865?
What is thirteen
400
Born into slavery, founded the first elementary school for blacks in Kansas, I became involved in politics and in 1874 ws elected to the U.S. Senate.
What is Blanche K. Bruce
400
What conditions lead to the creation of the Pan-African movement?
What is Imperialism in Africa and racism against people of African descent.
400
Racial tension grew more severe at the end of World War I, reaching it's peck with bloody racial violence in the summer of 1919.
What is Red summer
400
Marcus Garvey, founder of the black nationalism movement, one of the most famous black men of the 1920's. What was the name of his origanization?
What is Universal Negro Improvement Association
400
What were three ways in African Americans worked to improve their lives in the 1910's and 1920's
What is moving north, getting new and different jobs, and working with whites.
500
I died at the age of 14 in Mississippi at the hands of some racist whites. At my funeral my mother made sure that my battered body was shown.
What is Emmitt Till
500
Name three African Americans that were active and very much part of the Harlem Reniassance.
What is Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and Zora Neale Hurston
500
Identify two U.S. Supreme Court cases from the 1938 to 1954 that challenged the doctrine of "seperate but equal" in public education.
What is Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, Gaines v. Canada, Mc Laurin v. Oklahoma
500
Identify the push and pull factors that led to the Great Migration
What is PUSH:lack of opportunity; discrimination; violence; disfranchisement. PULL: promise of steady jobs and good pay.
500
What were the Freedom Rides and what did they accomplish?
What is The Freedom Rides were bus trips through the South in which activists tried to use the segregated bus facilities. The protests helped pressure the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue tough new laws to enforce intergration in interstate travel.