Black History in the US (Int 2)

When did the US have slavery?

• 1619-1865

• For 400 years

• 1600s to 1900s

People from Europe captured people from _______ and forced them to come to the Americas.

• China

• Africa

• farmers

Enslaved people worked all day and received no money and no _________________.

• education

• water

• clothes

Families were separated and enslaved people suffered violence.

• True

• False

Enslaved people escaped so white people created the _________ to capture them.

• Army

• Police

• Fire and Rescue

The US Civil War began in 1861 because _________ states wanted to end slavery.

• Northern

• Southern

• Eastern

The North won the Civil War and slavery _________.

• continued

• ended

• increased

After slavery ended, African Americans went to school and some became _____________.

• bus drivers

• president

• politicians

Some white people did not like to see Black people do well so they made laws to __________ them.

• help

• separate

• pay

Jim Crow Laws from 1877 - 1965 said Black people had __________ schools, bathrooms, and restaurants.

• very nice

• different

• new