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Chapter 20 African Americans at Mid-19th Century
Chapter 20 African Americans at Mid-19th Century
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1
Free blacks living in both the North and the South
preferred living apart from whites.
had the same rights as everyone else.
faced discrimination and racism.
lived side by side with whites.
2
When gathered together in their "invisible churches," slaves
kept their African languages alive.
preached a message of obedience to their owners.
taught their children the value of silence.
brought joy and comfort to each other.
3
What was the main effect of the cotton gin on slaves?
It decreased the value of slaves.
It ended the Atlantic slave trade.
It made slaves' lives easier.
It increased the demand for slaves.
4
African American quilts were used for all of the following
except
to start fires.
illustrating Biblical stories.
expressing their mixed African and American culture.
communicating amongst slaves.
5
African cultural traditions were expressed in all the following
except
songs and spirituals.
stories and folktales.
working in the fields.
the art.
6
Between 1839 and 1860, the amount of land in the South devoted to cotton
decreased slightly.
about doubled.
increased slowly.
stayed about the same.
7
Slaves most often resisted slavery by
organizing slave uprisings.
finding ways to avoid work.
killing their owners.
running away to the North.
8
What does this map show?
the routes followed by runaway slaves
the expansion of cotton growing
the end of the Atlantic slave trade
the rising value of slaves
9
Nat Turner was
a southern black preacher.
a nonviolent abolitionist.
a ruthless slaveholder.
the leader of a violent rebellion.
10
Harriet Tubman was
an abolitionist who led slaves to freedom.
a women's suffrage reformist.
a Washington politician.
a rich woman who paid for slaves to seek their freedom.
11
What did slaves fear most?
being disrespectful to their owners
being sold away from their families
Being caught while running away
being sent back to Africa
12
The Underground Railroad was
a secret route to Mexico where slavery was prohibited.
a train used by African Americans to go north.
a network of secret routes and safe houses to go north.
an underground tunnel that went north.
13
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Eli Whitney
14
From 1801 to 1860, the system of slavery moved mainly
south into Florida and the Caribbean.
east on to islands off the Atlantic Coast.
west into the Mississippi Valley and Texas.
north into the Ohio Valley and Louisiana Territory.
15
What invention accounts for the changes shown on the map?
sewing machine
cotton gin
steamboat
mechanical reaper
16
A majority of slaves worked as
factory workers.
field hands.
household servants.
skilled craftspeople.
17
Slaveholders used all of these methods to control enslaved African Americans
except
keeping slaves ignorant by not educating them.
threatening severe punishment to slaves who did not obey.
treating slaves like grown-up children.
promising slaves their freedom if they worked hard.
18
Many white southerners who did not own slaves still supported slavery because they knew that
slaveholders were the South's natural leaders.
they would have their own slaves someday.
the South's economy depended on slave labor.
the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.
