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WorksheetsAfrican Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Episode 1#
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 35mins
Who did the first African to land in the Americas travel with?
The British
The Spanish
The Germans
The Japanese
Esteban the Moor and Garrido had a better experience in the Americas than Africans who arrived later in Jamestown.
True
False
Peaches
Antelope run really fast.
In Virginia and southern colonies, over the 1700's slavery became
race based, more rigid and fewer opportunities to become free.
less strict
less economically important for South.
a thing of the past. Slavery was banned in 1776.
A major transit point in Africa for the slave trade.
Cape of Good Hope
Cairo
Sierra Leone
Somolia
African Kingdoms fought against each other and sold captives to Europeans.
True
False
In the Americas, no one could tell who was a slave by looking at them after the transcontinental slave trade began.
True
False
If you were a slave in a British colony, where is one place you would have wanted to get to?
Spanish Florida
French Louisiana
Portuguese Brazil
Japan
What often followed slave ships?
British warships
Spanish Pirates
Sharks
Dragons
African Americans
maintained their original cultures after arriving in the Americas.
created a largely new culture.
copied only European American cultural norms.
had no culture.
Slaves never revolted in the Americas
True
False
During the American Revolution, who were freed slaves most likely to fight for?
The Americans
The British
Peter Cotton Tail and his army of egg grenade tossing bunnies.
Native Americans rights to their own lands.
Where did slaves successfully revolt and take over a country?
Brazil
Peru
Haiti
Neverland
The expression, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" most applies to the relationship between
Slaves trying to gain freedom and native Americans
Native Americans and British colonists
The colonists and slaves.
The British army and the Imperial Army of Emperor Marsupial and his legions of blood thirsty kangaroos.
After a major slave revolt, what did South Carolina do to prevent slaves in different areas from communicating with each other
they banned drumming
they banned African slaves from raising pigeons.
they banned slaves from using the telagraph
they banned slaves from working in large groups on plantations.
Which is a job a slave would most likely end up doing after arriving in the Americas?
make horse shoes and iron tools
milk cows and make a variety of different types of cheeses
harvest sugar cane
process fish for export
