African American Studies Semester One Test

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TRUE OR FALSE: Slave children were often separated from their families as soon as they could work.

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True

Front

The portion of triangular trade that brought slaves across the atlantic was called

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the Middle passage

Front

Which reform movement is most closely associated with William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe?

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Abolitionist

Front

The south’s economy during the Antebellum era depended on _______.

Back

Cotton

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Which of the following best defines the Underground Railroad? Options: Path that escaped slaves took to freedom in the North, Nickname for the Fugitive Slave Act, Secret Northern Railroad built to transfer slaves after the Civil War

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Path that escaped slaves took to freedom in the North

Front

Who was the most famous Conductor of the Underground Railroad?

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Harriet Tubman

Front

If a mother was a slave, her child was:

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A slave for life

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True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation immediately set all the slaves in the United States free?

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False

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The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in

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providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.

Front

What did the 13th Amendment do?

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made slavery illegal