African American History Test #2

An indentured servant is...

• a person who works in the colonies.
• a person who works for someone for 4-7 years.
• a poor person in England during the 1600s.
• someone who owned land in America.

Promised freedom to African Americans who joined the British cause and fought on the British side:

• Lord Dunmore

• Thomas Paine

• Friedrich von Steuben

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Charles Cornwallis

What was a maroon community?

• A group of men who created the African Lodge

• A group of runaway slaves that would live together

• A group of runaway slaves that tried to flee to Florida

• A group of African Americans that fought in the Revolutionary War

At the Continental Congress, they ordered that ONLY __________ men were allowed to join the army.

• Tall

• Young

• Trained

• Free

Why did the Americans wait until late in the war to allow black men to fight in the war?

• African Americans had too much paperwork to fill out

• The Continental army was desperate for more men to enlist

• Americans forgot that the African Americans could join them

• The Continental army was too busy at the beginning

Both sides offered slaves their ___________ if they joined their armies.

• houses

• money

• freedom

• wealth and power

African Americans favored which side during the American Revolution?

• Britain

• The Colonies (America)

• Both sides

• Neither side

Most slaves gained their freedom after the American Revolution was over

• True

• False