Plantations/Triangular Trade
This is where the route of the triangular trade traveled.
a. a route of trade between Asia, Africa, and Europe
b. a route of trade between Antarctica, Europe and Asia.
c. a route of trade between Africa, the New World (U.S.), and Europe.
What is a route of trade between Africa, the New World (U.S.), and Europe?
Besides Africans in the New World, what other cultures enslaved people?
a. Ancient Egyptians
b. Ancient Greeks
c. parts of Mexico and South America by Spanish conquistadors
d. all of the above
What is all of the above?
Name the city on the Gulf of Mexico where many slaves were sold.
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
This was the document Lincoln delivered in 1863 that ordered slaves freed in any state not controlled by the Union.
a. the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
b. the Emancipation Proclamation
c. the Gettysburg Address
d. the Declaration of Independence
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
a large farm and estate which grew cotton, tobacco, coffee etc.
What is a plantation?
This is where many slaves worked in the South.
a. building ships
b. in clothing factories
c. in the senate
d. on large plantations
What is on large plantations?
This is why so many slave owners believed it was okay to keep slaves.
a. Many of the slave owners felt that blacks were inferior people.
b. Many of the slave owners were brought up that way generation after generation.
c. Many of the slave owners used religion to justify slavery.
d. all of the above
What is all of the above?
Slavers often examined the slaves before purchasing them. This is how they examined or inspected them.
a. They tested their reading abilities.
b. They checked them for injuries and lameness.
c. Their DNA was taken.
What is they checked them for injuries and lameness?
This event truly freed slaves in the United States.
a. the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (1865)
b. the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
c. the Gettysburg Address (1863)
d. the Declaration of Independence (1776)
What is the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (1865)?
a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold
What is an auction?
This is when the first Africans were brought to the United States to be used as slaves.
a. The slaves were brought from Africa in the 1600s.
b. The slaves were brought from Africa in the 1700s.
c. The slaves were brought from Africa in the 1800s.
d. The slaves were brought from Africa in the 1900s.
What is they were brought from Africa in the 1600s?
Slavery became a moral issue. More and more Northerners were against the idea of slavery. This is what the word “moral” means.
What is right and wrong?
In 1859, Pierce Butler sold a record 429 slaves at an auction. This is why he sold his slaves.
What is because he was in debt?
The year the United States outlawed shipping slaves from Africa to North America along the Middle Passage.
a. 1776
b. 1808
c. 1865
d. 1965
What is 1808?
to do away with; put an end to
What is abolish?
This is where most of the large plantations were located?
a. In Canada
b. In the New England States
c. in the Middle States
d. in the Southern States
Where is the Southern States?
In the Turner’s Rebellion of 1831, a group of slaves murdered 55 men, women, and children. This was this an example of...
a. an organized revolt against their owners.
b. cannibalism.
c. thrill killing.
d. the Underground Railroad.
What is an organized revolt against their owners?
Identify a devastating result for the families/friends of an auction.
What is they were often separated from family members?
This was the problem the Missouri Compromise of 1820 tried to solve.
a. Whether Missouri would become a state.
b. Whether the North would begin having slavery.
c. Whether Missouri would join the Confederacy.
d. Whether new states would have slavery or not.
What is whether new states would have slavery or not?
a person who is the property of another
What is a slave?
This was the route from Africa, the New World, and Europe used to transport raw materials, slaves, and finished products.
a. the Middle Passage
b. Triangular Trade
c. the Oregon trail
d. the Cumberland Gap
What is Triangular Trade?
In the song, “Southern Man”, the lyrics “I heard screaming and bullwhips cracking” mean...
What is the bullwhips being used to punish slaves?
If a plantation owner killed an enslaved laborer, this would:
a. face no legal punishment
b. stand trial for murder
c. have to pay the laborer's family
d. be sent to jail
What is face no legal punishment?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Spanish conquerors of Mexico and parts of South America
What is a conquistador?