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Duplicate of Ch.20 African Americans at Mid-19th Century
Duplicate of Ch.20 African Americans at Mid-19th Century
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U.S. History 8 #slavery #ushistory
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1
What was the main effect of the cotton gin on slaves?
It decreased the value of slaves.
It increased the demand for slaves.
It ended the Atlantic slave trade.
It made slaves' lives easier.
2
The great majority of slaves worked as
skilled craftspeople.
household servants.
field hands.
factory workers.
3
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
Eli Whitney
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
4
From 1801 to 1860, the system of slavery moved mainly
west into the Mississippi Valley and Texas.
north in to the Ohio Valley and Louisiana Territory.
east onto islands off the Atlantic Coast.
south into Florida and the Caribbean.
5
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A women's suffrage reformist.
An abolitionist who led slaves to freedom.
A Washington politician.
A rich woman who paid for slaves to seek their freedom.
6
Many white southerners who did not own slaves still supported slavery because they knew that
the South's economy depended on slave labor.
they would have their own slaves someday.
slaveholders were the South's natural leaders.
the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.
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What does this map show?
the routes followed by runaway slaves
the growth of the cotton kingdom
the rising value of slaves
the end of the Atlantic slave trade
8
Free blacks living in both the North and the South
preferred living apart
faced discrimination and racism.
had the same rights as whites.
lived side by side with whites.
9
The map suggests selling slaves for the slave trade was more profitable than raising cotton in
Virginia and Kentucky.
Georgia and Alabama.
Louisiana and Mississippi.
Texas and Arkansas.
10
The most common way slaves resisted slavery was by
killing their owners.
organizing slave uprisings.
finding ways to avoid work.
running away to the North.
11
The Underground Railroad was
a train used by African Americans to go north.
a network of secret routes and safe houses to go north.
a secret route to Mexico where slavery was prohibited.
an underground tunnel that went north.
12
What invention accounts for the changes shown on the map?
sewing machine
cotton gin
mechanical reaper
steamboat
13
Between 1839 and 1860, the amount of land in the South devoted to cotton
decreased slightly.
increased slowly.
stayed about the same.
about doubled.
14
What slaves generally feared most of all was being
sold away from their families.
disrespectful to their elders.
sent back to Africa.
caught while running away.
15
When gathered together in their "invisible churches," slaves
kept their African languages alive.
taught their children the value of silence.
brought joy and comfort to each other.
preached a message of obedience to their owners.
16
African cultural traditions were expressed in all the following
except
the songs and spirituals sung by slaves.
the art of quilts created by slaves.
the living conditions endured by slaves.
the stories and folktales told by slaves.
17
Who was Nat Turner?
A ruthless slaveholder.
Led a rebellion set out to kill every white in sight.
A nonviolent abolitionist.
A southern black preacher.
18
Slaveholders used all of these methods to control enslaved African Americans
except
promising slaves their freedom if they worked hard.
keeping slaves ignorant by not educating them properly.
treating slaves like grown-up children.
threatening severe punishment to slaves who did not obey.
19
From Norfolk to Port Lavaca, about how wide was the cotton kingdom in 1860?
400 miles
2,400 miles
800 miles
1,200 miles
20
African American quilts were used for all the following
except
illustrating Biblical stories.
expressing their mixed African and American culture.
to start fires.
communicating amongst slaves.
