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African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Episode 1#

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who did the first African to land in the Americas travel with?

a)

The British

b)

The Spanish

c)

The Germans

d)

The Japanese

2.

Esteban the Moor and Garrido had a better experience in the Americas than Africans who arrived later in Jamestown.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Peaches

d)

Antelope run really fast.

3.

In Virginia and southern colonies, over the 1700's slavery became

a)

race based, more rigid and fewer opportunities to become free.

b)

less strict

c)

less economically important for South.

d)

a thing of the past. Slavery was banned in 1776.

4.

A major transit point in Africa for the slave trade.

a)

Cape of Good Hope

b)

Cairo

c)

Sierra Leone

d)

Somolia

5.

African Kingdoms fought against each other and sold captives to Europeans.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

In the Americas, no one could tell who was a slave by looking at them after the transcontinental slave trade began.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

If you were a slave in a British colony, where is one place you would have wanted to get to?

a)

Spanish Florida

b)

French Louisiana

c)

Portuguese Brazil

d)

Japan

8.

What often followed slave ships?

a)

British warships

b)

Spanish Pirates

c)

Sharks

d)

Dragons

9.

African Americans

a)

maintained their original cultures after arriving in the Americas.

b)

created a largely new culture.

c)

copied only European American cultural norms.

d)

had no culture.

10.

Slaves never revolted in the Americas

a)

True

b)

False

11.

During the American Revolution, who were freed slaves most likely to fight for?

a)

The Americans

b)

The British

c)

Peter Cotton Tail and his army of egg grenade tossing bunnies.

d)

Native Americans rights to their own lands.

12.

Where did slaves successfully revolt and take over a country?

a)

Brazil

b)

Peru

c)

Haiti

d)

Neverland

13.

The expression, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" most applies to the relationship between

a)

Slaves trying to gain freedom and native Americans

b)

Native Americans and British colonists

c)

The colonists and slaves.

d)

The British army and the Imperial Army of Emperor Marsupial and his legions of blood thirsty kangaroos.

14.

After a major slave revolt, what did South Carolina do to prevent slaves in different areas from communicating with each other

a)

they banned drumming

b)

they banned African slaves from raising pigeons.

c)

they banned slaves from using the telagraph

d)

they banned slaves from working in large groups on plantations.

15.

Which is a job a slave would most likely end up doing after arriving in the Americas?

a)

make horse shoes and iron tools

b)

milk cows and make a variety of different types of cheeses

c)

harvest sugar cane

d)

process fish for export