African Americans in the Mid 1800s

What was the negative social factor that determined the reason why many African Americans came to Texas during the mid 1800s?

• The issue of Slavery

• Texas Real Estate

• The discovery of oil

Which cultural group brought African American slaves with them when they migrated to Texas?

• Mexicans

• Germans

• Southern Anglo-Americans

How was the U.S. population changing in the early 1800s?

• It was made up of smaller families

• It had a growing African slave population

• it had a shrinking immigrant population

• It was becoming much older

Which statement best completes the diagram?

• Fewer Americans work as unskilled workers

• Catholicism becomes the dominant U.S. religion

• Most Americans move to western territories

• The number of enslaved Africans increases

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

• They preferred living only with African Americans.

• They lived side by side with white Americans.

• They faced discrimination and racism.

Which of these was a danger for African American troops who fought for the Union?

• if captured, they could be sold into slavery.

• They were frequently attacked by other Union soldiers.

• If captured, they would be forced to fight for the Confederacy.

• They were easily overcome since they had no weapons.

Abolitionist groups began to form in the north calling for an end to 

• building new factories

• the Gold Rush

• the Oregon Trail

• slavery

By 1860, the number of African American slaves in the United States had increased to

• 4 billion

• 400,000

• 40,000

• 4 million

Slavery had ended in the North, but free African Americans still__________granted equal treatment.   

• were

• were not

Free African Americans in the North were often denied the right to vote or not allowed to work in factories.  Schools, churches, and public facilities were _______________.

• kept equal

• segregated

• desegregated

• identical