Pop quiz 17.4

Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Douglass all were (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

• born into slavery

• abolitionists

• published anti-slavery newspapers

• grew up in slave-holding families

Enslaved people in America typically (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

• were part of the family and community

• had rights to protect them from abuse

• had a good chance of getting free some day

• were treated as no more human than a farm tool

Housing conditions for slaves typically

• kept them healthy and strong so they could work well

• were so bad that disease and short lives were common

Children born to slave parents

• might become slaves themselves if the slave holder wanted them

• automatically were considered the property of their mother's owner

Enslaved children typically began working for the owner

• around age 16

• around age 12

• by age 18, sometimes as young as 10

• around age 4, and certainly by age 8

A slave auction was (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

• where people bought new people to enslave

• a humiliating experience for the person being sold

• where a person tried to get bought so he could get money

• might end up selling a person to a place far away from his family

Working conditions for enslaved persons typically included (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

• frequent violent whippings

• working 6 - 10 hours every day

• working as long as there was enough light in the sky to see the work

• working even when sick

• working from sun up to sun down, and maybe at night if there was good moonlight

In the United States (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

• Slavery was made illegal in the 1830's

• Slavery was made illegal in 1808

• the trans-Atlantic slave trade was made illegal in 1808

• Congress passed a law prohibiting the importation of enslaved persons

• Slavery ended in 1808

Some Americans knew that it was morally wrong to enslave people.

• True

• False

What helped Americans see that slavery was morally wrong?

• the Second Great Awakening, where religious beliefs were being renewed

• the women's rights reform movement, where the Declaration of Sentiments reminded them that "all men are created equal"

• nothing