The Question Slavery

In what century did slavery experience its most rapid growth in America?

• 1600s

• 1700s

• 1800s

• 1900s

The southern economy was based on ____________, or plants that are grown for profit rather than personal use.

• demand

• cash crops

• shipping

• manufacturing

In ________, Congress banned the importation or trade of enslaved Africans in the United States.

• 1808

• 1810

• 1863

• 1865

This was a political movement that pushed for the ending of slavery in America.

• Progressive Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

• Freedom Movement

• Abolitionist Movement

Because of slave rebellions against slaveholders in the South, many southern states passed a series of laws known as _______ _________ which defined slaves as property of slaveholders and limited black freedoms.

• escape codes

• slave codes

• rebellion codes

• abolition codes

Enslaved people resisted in both seen and unseen ways. These forms of resistance included which of the following? You can check more than one box/answer, mark every way enslaved people resisted their enslavement.

• Destroyed crops.

• Took their cases to court to fight for their freedom.

• Escaped on the Underground Railroad.

• Started armed rebellions.

• Learned to read and write in secret.

From the article, the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 did which of the following? You can check more than one box/answer.

• Freed the 3.5 million enslaved people in the states that had withdrawn from the U.S.

• Freed all slaves in the U.S.

• Allowed freed slaves to join the Union Army.

• Allowed freed slaves to join the Confederacy.

In what year was slavery officially abolished in the United States?

• 1808

• 1810

• 1863

• 1865

It wasn't until the passage of the _____ ____________ that slavery was officially abolished in the U.S.

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation

True or False: Slavery and its aftermath continue to affect the U.S. in the present.

• True

• False