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Slavery In the South Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group are called what?

a)

plantation

b)

crops

c)

revolt

d)

gullah

2.

A large estate or farm on which crops are raised, often by resident workers is called a what?

a)

plantation

b)

middle passage

c)

black code

d)

shackles

3.

Who was the African American man who was most famous for planning a slave rebellion in the United States in 1822? He was enslaved in South Carolina.

a)

Middle Passage

b)

Gullah

c)

Black Codes

d)

Denmark Vesey

4.

What action means to oppose or refuse to accept something?

a)

slave

b)

shackles

c)

plantation

d)

revolt

5.

What is the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies & Africa?

a)

Denmark Vesey

b)

middle passage

c)

black codes

d)

slave ships

6.

Name a metal fastening, usually one of a pair, for encircling and confining the ankle or wrist of a prisoner or capture.

a)

slave

b)

shackles

c)

slave ship

d)

revolt

7.

What is the name given to one bound in servitude as the property of a person or household?

a)

slave

b)

shackle

c)

slave ship

d)

revolt

8.

What was the vessel used to transport slaves, formerly from Africa to the New World?

a)

middle passage

b)

slave ship

c)

denmark vesey

d)

black codes

9.

What is the creolized language of those traveling from Africa to the New World, based on English but including vocabulary elements and grammatical features from several African languages spoken in isolated communities from Georgetown in eastern South Carolina to Northern Florida?

a)

Denmark Vesey

b)

Gullah

c)

Middle Passage

d)

Black Codes

10.

What is the body of laws, statues, and rules enacted by southern states immediately after the Civil War to regain control over the freed slaves, maintain while supremacy, and ensure the continued supply of cheap labor?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Slave ships

c)

Middle Passage

d)

Dnemark Vesey

11.

Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves?

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12.

Who was the famous "conductor" that helped free numerous slaves, while risking their own life by doing so?

4 lines