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WorksheetsAP African American Studies
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
This west African city was a place of importane to both the Mali and Songhai Empires. It contained universities, Islamic schools and a robust trade in books.
Adulis
Cairo
Timbuktu
Great Zimbabwe
The only thing left remaining of this ancient west African society are terracotta sculpture like this one.
Benin
Nok
Mali
Nubia/Kush
A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.
Indentured Servitude
Slavery
Chattel
Columbian Exchange
A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Columbian Exchange
Middle Passage
The trading of African people to the colonies of the New World in and around the Atlantic ocean.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Middle Passage
Amistad (1839)
Slaves took control of a ship in Cuba and were intercepted by Americans. After a SC trial in which John Q. Adams argued for them, they were allowed to go to their intended destination, Africa.
Zong Massacre
Amistad
Rebellion
Creole
In 1781, captain Collingwood overpacked his slave ship, the Zong, with 442 Africans to be sold in Jamaica. The crowded ship caused diseases among hundreds. Collingwood decided to throw sick Africans overboard to claim insurance money.
Amistad
Zong Massacre
Mutiny
Rebellion
A dispersion of people from their homeland.
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Middle Passage
Diaspora
An item of personal, movable property; slave.
Chattel
Slavery
Creole
Coffle
A group of prisoners or slaves chained in a line.
Mutiny
Creole
Coffle
Rebellion
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Columbian Exchange
Middle Passage
Zong Massacre
A fairly small-scale commerce in enslaved people that flourished especially from 1100 to 1400, exporting West African slaves across the Sahara for sale in Islamic North Africa.
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Middle Passage
Caboceers
Which African American leader delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech during the 1963 March on Washington?
A) Malcolm X
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Rosa Parks
D) Frederick Douglass
What was the primary purpose of the Underground Railroad in the 19th century United States?
A) To transport goods across the country
B) To provide a network for enslaved people to escape to freedom
C) To build railroads for economic development
D) To establish trade routes with Native American tribes
Which amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery?
A) 13th Amendment
B) 14th Amendment
C) 15th Amendment
D) 16th Amendment
