Early Africans in the Americas
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Enslaved Peoples Experiences
Laws, Policies, & Legal Status
African American Culture & Identity
100

These Africans were multilingual and multicultural and were among the first Africans in what became the U.S.

Who were the ladinos?

100

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade occurred between these years.

What are the early 1500s to the mid-1800s?

100

This horrific Middle Passage method of resistance included refusing to eat.

What is staging hunger strikes?

100

The Constitution counted African Americans as this fraction of a person.

What is 3/5?

100

Rhythmic African traditions helped form this American genre known for spiritual significance.

What is gospel?

200

This African conquistador maintained his freedom by serving in the Spanish military.

Who is Juan Garrido?

200

This number represents the approximate total of enslaved Africans forcibly transported.

What is 12.5 million?

200

This 1739 uprising in South Carolina was one of the largest slave revolts in the British colonies and led plantation owners to strengthen slave codes.


What is the Stono Rebellion?


200

Article IV, Section 2 stated that people “held to service” could not do this.

What is escape their service?

200

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to accomplish this achievement.

What is publish a book?

300

Africans in the Americas served in this role as part of colonization efforts.

What are conquistadors?

300

Nearly 48% of Africans brought to the U.S. arrived through this city.

What is Charleston, South Carolina?

300

In this system, enslaved people worked individually toward a daily quota.

What is the task system?

300

This 1857 Supreme Court case declared African Americans had no right to citizenship.

What is the Dred Scott case?

300

African religious traditions blended with Christianity to form religions like these.


What are Vodou, Candomblé, or Santería?


400

Juan Garrido was the first known African to arrive in this U.S. region..

What is Florida?

400

These were the top 5 enslaving nations.

What are Portugal, Great Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands?

400

In this system, enslaved people used syncopated work songs to keep pace.

What is the gang system?

400

The Constitution originally did not include this word.

What is “slave”?

400

Enslaved people used these cultural traditions to maintain identity and community.


What are music, religion, and oral storytelling?


500

Africans in colonization could be enslaved laborers, free skilled workers, or this.

What are leaders of expeditions?

500

African states participated in the slave trade mostly through these actions.


What is capturing and trading war prisoners?


500

The growth of the cotton industry caused this major impact on enslaved families.

What is more family separation?

500

This legal principle meant a child’s status followed the mother, shaping racial categories for centuries.


What is partus sequitur ventrem?(follow the belly rule)


500

Olaudah Equiano purchased his freedom and became known for this.


What is being an abolitionist?