Slavery in America Quiz 1

Movement to end slavery.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Northwest Ordinance

• Cotton Gin

• Abolition

This was invented by Eli Whitney and it quickly separated seeds from the cotton fibers. It helped to increase nation from 6 slave states in 1790 to 15 in 1860.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Northwest Ordinance

• Cotton Gin

• Abolition

Slave that lived in Virginia, started out with a few slaves and went house to house freeing slaves and killing all white people they encountered. Virginia passed laws forbidding blacks and mulattoes from being educated or holding religious meetings without the presence of a white minister.

• Nat Turner

• Abraham Lincoln

• Nullification Crisis

• Wilmot Provsio

Termed used, mostly in the south, to describe how important cotton was to the southern economy and the rest of the world. South believed that Europe’s dependence on southern cotton would make them get involved in a civil war.

• King Cotton

• Secession

• Nullification Crisis

• Tariff of 1828

When did the first African Americans arrive in Jamestown?

• 1607

• 1619

• 1620

• 1632

Theses were laws made specifically for African's that came to America...

• Slave Codes

• Indentured Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• The way of the land

When did Massachusetts legalize slavery?

• 1607

• 1620

• 1641

• 1652

In 1720 what was the percentage of the population that were slaves in South Carolina?

• 33%

• 50%

• 65%

• 75%

In the U.S. Constitution it states ”all other persons”  to be counted as ________ of a white person?

• 1/3

• 1/2

• 3/5

• 3/4

What were the major crops grown in the south during the period of slavery we have been discussing?

• Rice

• Indigo

• Cotton

• Tobacco

• All choices