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WorksheetsGeechee and Gullah Culture
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Gullah has come to be an accepted name of the islanders from .....?
New York
South Carolina
Georgia
Puerto Rico
The Gullah Coast stretches from_____ to ______?
Sandy Island SC, to Amelia Island Florida.
Columbia to Argentina.
Long Island, NY, to HHI, SC.
Jacksonville, Fl, to Orlando, Fl.
How were some traditions that were passed down in the Gullah/Geechee culture?
Via language, Irish dancing, and singing.
language, agriculture, and spirituality.
language, gauchos, and drinking tea.
language, salsa dancing, and folktales.
Why did Georgia lift the anti-slavery law in 1750?
They wanted to lose money.
They wanted to help West-African people by making them work on the plantations for free.
West Africans, the argument went, were better able to cope with the climate; and slaves were more profitable.
They copied what was happening in France at the time.
Rice plantations helped Georgia become very successful.
Yes
No
Maybe
Some anthropologists think that Gullah comes from....
Northern Africa
Angola on the windward coast
South Africa
East Africa
Some researchers think that the term Geechee comes from..
borrowed words from Haiti.
borrowed words from the Cherokees
borrowed words from Gola, Kissi Mende, Twi and Vai.
borrowed words from the Spanish.
Linguist Lorenzo Turner researched and documented spoken words and....
traced similarities to Caucasian groups..
traced similarities to Native American groups.
traced similarities to ethnic groups in China.
traced similarities to ethnic groups in West Africa.
The enslaved Africans brought with them knowledge of...
how to make tools needed for rice harvesting including fanner baskets for winnowing rice.
How to make tools to make a vineyard.
How to play Minecraft.
Lorenzo Turner had recorded a song that islander Amelia Dawley had been taught by her mother Octavia "Tawba" Shaw which was traced to...
Sierra Leone and was a Mende funeral song
Santa Barbara and was a country song.
South Carolina and was a Gullah rap.
South Dakota and was a line dance.
