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North and South
Economy, Working and Living Conditions
Controlling and Resisting
Leisure and Church
Families, Communities and Culture
100
How are slaves legally defined?
Slaves are legally defined as property.
100
Which job was "better" for slaves, farm or house work?
House work was deemed as easier and less taxing on the body and mind of a slave.
100
Why would slaves be punished in front of other slaves?
Owner's would do this to strike fear into the entire slave population.
100
What was leisure time a combination of?
Leisure time was a combination of adding fun to chores.
100
With whom did the legal control of slave children belong?
The slave owners not the parents.
200
Slaves that lived and worked on plantations were known as?
Rural Slaves
200
Would a slave go hungry or starve?
Most likely not, slaves were valuable investments and were feed enough to keep them working.
200
Name the four types of ways slaves resisted slavery.
1. Day-to-Day 2. Open Defiance 3. Run Away 4. Rebellion
200
Why were slaves encouraged to go to church?
Slaves were encouraged to attend white churches that preached a message of obedience.
200
Even though slave marriage was illegal what two reasons made owners allow marriages to happen?
Marriages allowed for slavery to grow and it also was used a form of controlling slaves. Owners could break up marriages at anytime.
300
Even while some African Americans were legally free in the south how were they not equal?
They did not share the same rights as everyone else, specifically the right to vote, bear arms and could not travel freely.
300
Describe the living conditions of Slaves.
The bare minimum for lodging, long huts, generally 4 walls and a roof with bare floors.
300
Name the three ways to control slaves.
1. Physical Punishment (Fear) 2. Dependency 3. Ignorance
300
Why did slave have "invisible churches"?
Invisible churches were just hidden from the southern white population and taught concepts of hope and freedom.
300
What is African American culture a combination of?
Old traditions from Africa and the new realities of America.
400
African Americans faced many forms of discrimination, even in the free North, explain segregation.
Segregation is the social separation of groups of people, especially by race.
400
How did the invention of the cotton gin effect slavery?
The cotton gin increased the production speed of cleaning cotton which adversely increased the need for more slave labor.
400
What was the purpose of a slave breaker?
To break the spirits of slaves
400
Explain this quote, "Come Day, Go Day, God send Sunday".
This means that the slaves want for the days to go by quickly so that it will be Sunday already, the one day slaves do not work.
400
How did quilts depict proof of an African American culture?
Quilt squares represented and told different stories, usually biblical stories that incorporated aspects from both Africa and America usually in the display of animals.
500
In 1853 African Americans created an organization to protest the injustices and unequal treatment they have received, what is that organization?
The NCCP (National Council of Colored People)
500
If most southerners did not own slaves, why did the South support the slave institution for so long?
Slavery was supported because it helped to grow the Southern economy.
500
How did slave states respond to the rebellions of Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey?
Those slave owning states enforced stricter slave codes.
500
Other than religion how was Sunday spent?
Sundays were a time for recreation, including fishing, hunting, dancing, singing and story telling.
500
How did African folk tales and traditions survive?
Through oral tradition, being passed down verbally from generation to generation.