Lesson 20- African Americans In The Mid-1800s Part 1 Question Preview (ID: 55950)


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What did the National Council of Colored People do?
a) to provide jobs for free slaves
b) encourage immigration from African nations
c) to teach African Americans how to blend into white society
d) protest the treatment of African Americans

What was the legal status of slaves in the United States?
a) citizen
b) dependents
c) property
d) immigrants

What was Denmark Vesey known for?
a) A teacher
b) The leader of violent slave rebellion
c) A leader
d) A evil man

The cotton gin had what effect on slaves?
a) It made their lives easier.
b) It increased the demand for slaves.
c) It decreased the need for slave labor.
d) It was the first step toward abolishing slavery.

Harriet Tubman’s work with the Underground Railroad involved doing what?
a) She guided slaves from the South to freedom.
b) She led others to take a stand against slave owners.
c) She bought slaves and then gave them their freedom.
d) She opened a school for those who traveled to Canada.

What did free African Americans living in both the North and the South have in common?
a) They faced discrimination and racism.
b) They had the same rights as everyone else.
c) They lived side by side with white Americans.
d) They preferred living only with African Americans.

What is it when someone is unequally treated based on their race, gender, religion, or other arbitrary characteristics
a) Racism
b) Discrimination
c) Prejudice
d) Slavery

Name the person who led and organized a violent slave rebellion?
a) Sojourner Truth
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Nat Turner
d) Edward Covey

What reason did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?
a) They feared the power of the slaveholders.
b) They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
c) They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
d) They understood the Constitution did not ban slavery.

Slaves feared what the most?
a) Punishment
b) Separation
c) Slaveholders
d) Virus's

Invisible church had what benefit to slaves?
a) it helped keep African language alive
b) it provided a place for slaves to plot escape
c) it provided a means/way for slaves to comfort each other
d) it helped teach children the value of silence

What way did Southern states react to slave rebellions?
a) They gave slaves some freedom.
b) They refused to take slaves back when they were captured.
c) They began to understand that slavery was wrong.
d) They passed even stricter slave codes.

Which one of these ways in which slaves expressed African cultural traditions is incorrect.
a) through art
b) through music
c) through fieldwork
d) through folk tales

Name the most common way slaves resisted slavery?
a) by killing their owners
b) by escaping to the North
c) by organizing slave uprisings
d) by finding ways to quietly rebel

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