Slavery

What is racism?

• The belief that one race is superior to another.
• Easily seen or understood.
• Not active.
• The social separation of groups of people especially by race.

Slaves expressed African cultural traditions in all of the following ways except

• through art.
• through music.
• through fieldwork.
• through folk tales.

Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?

• They feared the power of the slaveholders.
• They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
• They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.

What was the legal status of slaves in the United States?

• citizen
• property
• dependents
• immigrants

Which is true of free African Americans living in both the North and the South?

• They faced discrimination and racism.
• They lived side by side with white Americans.
• They had the same rights as everyone else.
• They preferred living only with African Americans.

Slaves were captured from _____.

• England
• Europe
• Africa
• France

Many slaves worked on large farms called ______.

• plantations
• villages

Capturing, transporting, and selling people is called the 

• slave auction
• overseer
• slave trade
• Middle Passage

This enslaved person’s journey from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean on a slave-trading ship.

• Middle Passage

• Triangular trade

• Slave trade

• Journey

A complete end to slavery

• abolition
• abolitionist
• emancipation
• dehumanization