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African Americans in the mid1800s

Authored by Blair Huggins

History

7th - 8th Grade

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African Americans in the mid1800s
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How were enslaved people treated according to the law?

as citizens

as property

as dependents

as immigrants

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the biggest fear of enslaved people?

getting whipped

being sent back to Africa

being sold from their families

being disrespected

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did enslaved people resist slavery most often?

rebelling in quiet/passive ways

by killing their owners

organizing slave uprisings

being disrespectful

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

art

fieldwork

music

folktales

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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