African Americans in the mid1800s

What was life like for free African Americans in the North?

• They were given special privileges

• They were encouraged to move to the South

• They were not treated as equal to other citizens - discrimination

• They had the same rights as all other citizens

How were enslaved people treated according to the law?

• as citizens

• as property

• as dependents

• as immigrants

What was the biggest fear of enslaved people?

• getting whipped

• being sent back to Africa

• being sold from their families

• being disrespected

How did enslaved people resist slavery most often?

• rebelling in quiet/passive ways

• by killing their owners

• organizing slave uprisings

• being disrespectful

The Underground Railroad is…

• a train system that moved enslaved people to the North

• people who caught fugitive enslaved people and returned them

• people who secretly helped enslaved people escape

• actual tunnels used to move enslaved people to free states

Enslaved people expressed African cultural traditions in all of the following ways except through…

• art

• fieldwork

• music

• folktales

So...the majority of whites in the South did not own enslaved people. Why on Earth would they support slavery if they don't own enslaved people?

• They knew that the economy of the US depended on the labor of enslaved people

• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South

• They believed they would be able to own enslaved people someday

• They feared the power of the slaveholders

Which statement is true regarding the living conditions of enslaved people?

• most enslaved people lived in the barn with the horses

• enslaved people that worked in the fields lived in crowded shacks built of wood, most had dirt floors

• enslaved people lived together with their families in small but nice homes

• enslaved people had no houses, they slept in the fields

Which statement accurately describes the working conditions of enslaved people?

• brutal and dangerous working conditions; they worked from sunrise to sunset with very little free time

• they were paid for any extra work they completed after sunset

• they often had time to learn how to read on their own

• they worked 8 hours a day, 5 days a week

Who was Harriet Tubman?

• a freed person, she led others to take a stand against slave owners

• a freed person, she bought enslaved people and then gave them their freedom

• an escaped enslaved person, she guided enslaved people from the South to freedom

• an escaped enslaved person, she opened a school for those who traveled to Canada