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African Americans at Mid Century
African Americans at Mid Century
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1
What was the main effect of the cotton gin on enslaved people?
It made their lives easier.
It ended the Atlantic slave trade.
It increased the demand for enslaved people.
It decreased the value of enslaved people.
2
The great majority of enslaved people worked as...
skilled craftspeople.
field hands.
household servants.
factory workers.
3
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Nat Turner
Eli Whitney
Harriet Tubman
4
African American quilts were used for all the following
except...
expressing their mixed African and American culture.
to start fires.
communicating.
illustrating Biblical stories.
5
Who was Harriet Tubman?
An abolitionist who led freedom seekers to safety.
A women's suffrage reformist.
A Washington politician.
A rich woman who paid for enslaved people's freedom.
6
What invention accounts for the changes shown on the map?
steamboat
mechanical reaper
sewing machine
cotton gin
7
Free black Americans living in both the North and the South...
had the same rights as white Americans.
lived side by side with white Americans.
faced discrimination and racism.
preferred living apart
8
Between 1839 and 1860, the amount of land in the South devoted to cotton...
decreased slightly.
stayed about the same.
increased slowly.
about doubled.
9
Enslavers used all of these methods to control enslaved African Americans
except...
keeping them ignorant by not educating them properly.
promising them their freedom if they worked hard.
threatening severe punishment to enslaved people who did not obey.
treating them like grown-up children.
10
What does this map show?
the rising value enslaved people
the end of the Atlantic slave trade
the growth of the cotton kingdom
the routes followed by freedom seekers
11
What enslaved people generally feared most of all was being...
caught while running away.
sent to Africa.
disrespectful to their elders.
sold away from their families.
12
From 1801 to 1860, the system of enslavement moved mainly...
south into Florida and the Caribbean.
west into the Mississippi Valley and Texas.
north in to the Ohio Valley and Louisiana Territory.
east onto islands off the Atlantic Coast.
13
Who was Nat Turner?
A ruthless enslaver.
A nonviolent abolitionist.
Led a rebellion set out to kill enslavers.
A southern black preacher.
14
The most common way enslaved people resisted was by...
running away to the North.
finding ways to avoid following orders.
killing their enslavers.
organizing uprisings of enslaved people.
15
The Underground Railroad was...
the first railroad transcontinental railroad route.
a train used by African Americans to go north.
an underground tunnel that went north.
secret routes/safe houses for freedom seekers escaping enslavement.
16
When gathered together in their "invisible churches," enslaved people...
kept their African languages alive.
brought joy and comfort to each other.
preached a message of obedience to their owners.
taught their children the value of silence.
17
Many white southerners who did not enslave people still supported enslavement because they knew that...
they may be enslavers someday.
enslavers were the South's natural leaders.
the South's economy depended on enslaved labor.
the Constitution did not ban enslavement in the South.
18
African cultural traditions were expressed in all the following
except...
the art of quilts created by enslaved people.
the stories and folktales told.
the living conditions endured by enslaved people.
the songs and spirituals sung.
