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Put the following into chronological order

• The U.S.-Mexico War

• The Louisiana Purchase

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

What was one major effect of Africans' resistance on slave ships?

• Changes in the design of slave ships

• Collaboration with slave traders
• A decrease in the amount of enslaved Africans sold in the Americas

• American victory in the Revolutionary War

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Match the following terms and definitions

• Somerset case

• a feature of English common law that protects prisoners from being detained without trial

• Lord Dunmore's Proclamation

• A British legal case that freed an American slave named James Somerset and inspired other slaves to sue for their freedom

• habeas corpus

• the scope of a court's power; the things over which they can make judgments

• jurisdiction

• legal actions by which slaves sought to achieve freedom in British and American courts

• freedom suits

• a document issued by Virginia's royal governor John Murray in November 1775 offering freedom to 'rebel' colonists' slaves who joined his forces

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2.5a

Why did some enslaved Africans join the loyalist side during the American Revolution?

• They admired the ideals of freedom and natural rights in the Declaration of Independence

• They thought they would be more likely to achieve freedom under British rule

• A sense of personal obligation toward the other Africans in their communities who would be harmed by war

• A sense of religious duty inspired by the evangelism of the Great Awakening

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What was the British "southern strategy"?

• Focus on recapturing the South to win the Revolutionary War

• Supporting the South during the Civil War to divide the Americans

• A tactic designed to set up sneak attacks on the North coming from the South

• Abolitionist plans to disrupt the Southern economy by exposing the brutality of the slave trade through various writings

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Which of the following provides the best historical context for Phyllis Wheatley's "On Being Brought From Africa To America"?

• Kongolese guerilla warfare against the Portuguese

• The Great Awakening

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The end of the transatlantic slave trade

Place the following events in chronological order.

• The Constitution

• The Amistad Trial

• The Declaration of Independence

• Dred Scot v Sanford

• The Great Awakening

What was the ultimate verdict in the Amistad trial?

• The Africans were to be returned to slavery in Spain

• The Africans were to be set free

• The Africans were to be handed over as slaves to the admiral who salvaged the ship

• Black people cannot cannot be citizens of the United States

What was the ultimate verdict in the Dred Scot trial?

• The Africans were to be returned to slavery in Spain

• The Africans were to be set free

• The Africans were to be handed over as slaves to the admiral who salvaged the ship

• Black people cannot cannot be citizens of the United States

Match the following

• Olaudah Equiano

• Wrote about their experience in a slave auction in Twelve Years a Slave

• Solomon Northup

• Abolitionist who wrote an "Interesting Narrative" about their experience as a slave, including being abducted from Africa and the Middle Passage

• Phyllis Wheatley

• Led a rebellion on a slave ship and was put on trial

• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

• Black abolitionist who, though never enslaved, wrote a poem called "The Slave Auction"

• Sengbe Pieh/Joseph Cinque

• Black poet who write a book of poetry while enslaved, including the poem "Being Brought From Africa to America"