Vocabulary
People
Events
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Riddles
100

This describes the journey of African slaves from Africa to the Americas

What is the Middle Passage?

100

Who is this free man drugged and sold into slavery for 12 years? 

Who is Solomon Northup?

100

This 1820 federal act determined where slavery could expand throughout the United States

What is the Missouri Compromise?

100

The Kingdom found in Nubia (to the South of Egypt) along the Nile is normally called this name

What is Kush?

100

This everyday item must be broken before you can use it.

What is a egg?

200

This current American state was the location of the first African slaves brought to America

What is Virginia?

200

This African played a key role as a conquistador during Spanish exploration, showing the different jobs that Free Africans could have in the New World

Who is Juan Garrido?

200

This 1854 act resulted in increased tensions between free states and slave states

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

200

The migration of these people is considered the most influential movement of Africans, as traditions and languages from these people are still in existence today

What is the Bantu Migration?

200

I have many keys but no locks.

What is a keyboard?

300

The name of the African translators who played a crucial role in the relationship between native tribes and their Iberian colonizers?

What are Ladinos?

300

An enslaved healer from Morocco, this man would spend time in the Americas, hoping to one day earn his freedom by working with the Spanish

(I will accept either name)

Who is Esteban (Estevanico)?

300

This year marks the first year that an African slave is recorded in what would become the United States

What is 1619?

300

The Northernmost and Southernmost tips of Africa share this climate zone that was familiar to many Europeans

What is the Mediterranean Zone?

300

I travel around the world while staying in a corner

What is a stamp?

400

The Carolina's Gullah Creole language was created as a result of this type the lack of supervision given in this system of enslavement

What is the task system?

400

Oliver Lewis became known in 1875 because he was the first person to be victorious in a now traditional American pastime

What is the Kentucky Derby?

400

This city would be the primary location for enslaved persons to enter the United States

What is Charleston, South Carolina?

400

This ancient African Kingdom was located in modern day Angola

What is the Kingdom of Kongo?

400

The more you take, the more you leave behind

What are footsteps?

500

The first step of understanding the African Slave trade is the existence of various

What are Coastal Dungeons?

500

This famous American actor and TV presenter not only participated in the groundbreaking ABC mini-series Roots, but also served as the host of Reading Rainbow, a free public access show designed to help teach young children to read

(I will accept either his name or the name of his character from Roots)

Who is LeVar Burton (Kunta Kinte)?

500
Argued by former President John Quincy Adams, the status of this slave ship divided the United States, this 1841 Supreme Court Case against the US government challenged perceptions surrounding freedom for enslaved persons in the United States

(I will accept the name of the ship by itself as the answer)

The Amistad

500

These storytellers preserved African oral traditions, and to this day perform songs which help carry the history of ancient Africa

What are Griots (Griottes if they are women)?

500

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind

What is an echo?