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WorksheetsAFAM Unit 2 Review
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
Which definition best describes chattel slavery?
Debt peonage requiring repayment through work
Temporary bondage with eventual manumission
Ownership for life with hereditary enslavement
Indentured labor with fixed-term contracts
Colonization is best defined as
Expansion into new lands to settle and rule
Migration without settlement or control
Trading ventures without political authority
Cultural exchange between equal societies
Forced migration is characterized by
Diplomatic resettlement by treaty
Choice-driven relocation for opportunity
Seasonal travel for pastoral needs
Movement compelled without consent
Match each term with its description.
Atlantic creoles
Early Africans in future United States
Conquistadores
Spanish colonizing soldiers of the 1500s
Juan Garrido
African freeman in Spanish conquest
Estevanico (Esteban)
Former enslaved guide with Cabeza de Vaca
Which roles did Atlantic creoles often perform before chattel slavery predominated?
Intermediaries in trade and diplomacy
Plantation overseers enforcing quotas
Missionaries spreading Christianity
Military governors of new colonies
Which option best describes conquistadores?
British magistrates in Caribbean
French fur traders in Canada
Portuguese sailors on slave ships
Sixteenth-century Spanish colonizing soldiers
Which statement about Estevanico is accurate?
He founded the city of Cibola
He guided expeditions and died scouting
He led the Aztec empire’s defense
He became a Supreme Court justice
The Middle Passage refers to
Overland route to western goldfields
Sea journey transporting enslaved Africans
Legal path to voluntary indenture
River migration of European settlers
The African Diaspora is the
Formation of the United Nations in Africa
Spread of African peoples across the Atlantic
Trade alliance between West African states
Return migration to West Africa
Which actions exemplify resistance to enslavement?
Rebellion against captors
Running away from bondage
Work slow-downs and sabotage
Voluntary signing of labor contracts
Which statement best summarizes the La Amistad case?
U.S. Supreme Court granted freedom to mutineers
French tribunal ruled for slave traders
British court upheld plantation laws
Spanish colonial court executed ship captains
Segbe Pieh is known for being
A judge in maritime courts
A conquistador in Peru
An inventor of the cotton gin
A leader in the La Amistad mutiny case
White supremacy is the belief that
Whites are inherently superior to others
Legal rights should be race-neutral
All races are biologically equal
Culture determines worth not biology
Calling slavery a ‘benign institution’ wrongly claimed that
It was purely an economic system of trade
It offered equal rights and protections
It ended with the importation ban of 1808
It benefited enslaved people by care and faith
A cash crop is
Cultivated for soil restoration only
Produced for commercial sale and profit
Reserved for ceremonial offerings
Grown for household subsistence
‘King Cotton’ indicates
A monarch in the Caribbean
Cotton’s dominance in Southern economy
A brand of textiles in New England
Trade treaty with West African kings
The cotton gin’s impact was
Banned cotton from export markets
Eliminated need for plantation labor
Revolutionized seed removal efficiency
Reduced cotton processing speed
Which outcome followed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807?
No new slaves imported after 1808
Immediate end of slavery nationwide
Expansion of transatlantic arrivals
Legalization of slave auctions abroad
The Second Middle Passage involved
Return to Africa by federal program
Forced movement to the lower South
Voluntary migration to factory jobs
Relocation to northern free states
Which description aligns with skilled labor on plantations?
Work requiring specialized training
Maritime navigation on slave ships
Religious instruction and preaching
Unskilled field tasks without oversight
Gullah people are noted for
Syncretic traditions in Georgia and South Carolina
Nomadic life in the Great Plains
Industrial work in New England mills
Royal governance in West Africa
The gang system of labor organized enslaved field hands into
Unregulated hours set by workers
Rotating committees for self-governance
Teams supervised to work in groups
Individual tasks done independently
Wealth disparity refers to
Government caps on personal fortunes
Equal distribution of global income
Expanding gap between richest few and others
Temporary recession affecting all classes
What was a major consequence of the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina?
Tightening of Slave Codes in 1740
Immediate emancipation statewide
Creation of the Code Noir in 1685
Abolition of taxes on new imports
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held which legal position?
Long residence created free status
Congress could ban slavery in territories
Enslaved persons were not U.S. citizens
Abolitionists could sue on behalf
Which Article outlines core legislative powers like taxing and declaring war?
Article IV of the Constitution
Article III of the Constitution
Article I of the Constitution
Article II of the Constitution
Article IV includes which slavery-related clause?
Due Process Expansion Clause
First Fugitive Slave Clause
Emancipation Proclamation Clause
Three-Fifths Counting Clause
Partus Sequitur Ventrem established what rule?
Religion determines status
Citizenship by residence
Freedom follows the father
Status follows the mother
Which statement reflects hereditary enslavement under partus doctrine?
Status determined by phenotype alone
Freedom passed by paternal lineage
Enslavement passed from mother to child
Church membership ended bondage
The Code Noir (1685) governed enslaved people in which colonial setting?
Spanish Cuba exclusively
British colonies in New England
French colonies like Louisiana
Dutch New Netherland only
Which newspaper was published by William Lloyd Garrison?
The Liberator
The North Star
Harper’s Weekly
Common Sense
What does emancipation mean in this historical context?
Receiving land grants from states
Paying reparations to colonists
Joining a church congregation
Being set free from legal restrictions
Which settlement offered emancipation to runaway enslaved persons who reached it?
Plymouth, Massachusetts
New Orleans, Louisiana
Jamestown, Virginia
St. Augustine, Florida
Who led the Stono Rebellion?
Nat Turner, Virginia preacher
Toussaint Louverture
Jemmy, an enslaved leader
Denmark Vesey, Charleston artisan
Which outcomes are linked to the Haitian Revolution? Select all that apply.
Inspiration for further slave revolts
Independence and abolition in Haiti
Forced reparations to France later
Immediate U.S. annexation of Haiti
Which effect connected Haiti to U.S. territorial expansion?
Napoleon sold Louisiana Purchase
U.S. invaded Saint-Domingue
Spain returned Florida immediately
Britain ceded Canada entirely
Which colonial term refers to slave codes in Spanish territories?
Mesta ordinaria
Carta blanca
Codigo negro
Ley de encomienda
Phenotype in racial classification referred to what?
Observable traits shaped by environment
Religious identity from syncretism
Legal status set by doctrine
Genotype-only hereditary sequences
What primary factor made the West Indies sugar trade profitable and expansive in the 1700s?
Innovations in steam-powered shipping
Protective tariffs and domestic subsidies
Limited market competition from Asia
Abundant free wage labor in the Caribbean
High European demand and enslaved labor supply
Toussaint L’Ouverture is best known for which accomplishment?
Drafting the U.S. Bill of Rights in 1791
Organizing the 1811 uprising in Louisiana
Negotiating the Louisiana Purchase for France
Commanding British forces in the Caribbean
Leading Haiti’s fight against slavery and colonial rule
In the context of the Americas, who were Maroons?
Runaway enslaved people forming self-governing communities
Indentured servants contracted to plantation owners
Free Black artisans living in coastal port cities
Native scouts hired by European armies
Sharecroppers renting land for a fixed portion
What was a major consequence of the Louisiana Purchase for the United States?
Doubled national size and control of Mississippi River
Ended slavery throughout all federal territories
Established a formal alliance with Great Britain
Triggered nationwide industrialization overnight
Created immediate statehood for all western lands
Charles Deslondes is associated with which historical action?
Drafting the 12th Amendment to the Constitution
Leadership in the 1811 slave uprising near New Orleans
Presiding over Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court case
Commanding the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Negotiating peace after the War of 1812
Madison Washington’s revolt aboard the Creole resulted in what outcome?
Relocating to French Martinique under amnesty
Sailing to the Bahamas where slavery was abolished
Gaining manumission through U.S. federal courts
Returning to Virginia after failed mutiny
Transporting captives to New Orleans as scheduled
Which statement accurately summarizes the Creole Mutiny of 1841?
Peaceful protest that led to new antislavery legislation
Slave ship mutiny freed 135 captives in British territory
Failed uprising that ended in mass executions at sea
Abolitionist raid on a Virginia jail releasing prisoners
U.S. naval seizure of a Spanish slave vessel near Florida
Women’s suffrage in the United States was legally secured by the
15th Amendment ratified in 1870
19th Amendment ratified in 1920
17th Amendment ratified in 1913
Equal Rights Amendment ratified in 1972
13th Amendment ratified in 1865
Ida B. Wells-Barnett is most closely associated with which reform efforts?
Founding NAACP and challenging segregated schools
Anti-lynching campaign and civil rights advocacy
Drafting the 19th Amendment in the U.S. Senate
Women’s suffrage organizing and public journalism
Leading abolitionist raids during the Civil War
Which statement defines abolitionism in the United States during the 1800s?
Religious revival promoting temperance laws
Campaign to limit immigration from Europe
Economic plan to modernize southern plantations
Legal movement to expand slaveholding states
Militant and nonviolent effort to end slavery
Mutual aid societies in Black communities during the 1800s primarily provided
Religious instruction for conversion and revival
Military training for defense against slave catchers
Political parties to nominate candidates for office
Financial and social benefits including medical aid
Sharecropping contracts and land redistribution
What did the 19th Amendment prohibit regarding voting rights?
Denying the right to vote on the basis of sex
Restricting voting to property owners only
Imposing poll taxes in federal elections
Limiting voting to citizens over age twenty-five
Disqualifying voters for prior criminal convictions
Maroon communities across the Americas are best described as
Settlements of escaped enslaved people forming new societies
Colonies of European indentured servants seeking land
Frontier forts manned by state militias against rebels
Mission towns organized by Catholic clergy in forests
Company towns controlled by plantation corporations
What is meant by self-emancipation in the context of slavery?
Legal emancipation after a court petition succeeds
Achieving freedom through paid labor contracts
Receiving manumission granted by a plantation owner
Freeing oneself from slavery and fleeing to free territory
Temporary liberty during religious festival days
Autonomous spaces in the nineteenth-century Black freedom struggle are defined as
Government-run settlements offering supervised employment
Plantation quarters allotted for family subsistence gardens
Church-owned lands dedicated to seasonal revival meetings
Urban districts regulated by municipal police patrols
Places independent from dominant institutions fostering self-reliance
Match leaders to their roles in the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath.
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Led struggle against slavery; secured control in 1797
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Declared Haiti independent; named the country in 1804
Napoleon Bonaparte
French emperor who sold Louisiana to the U.S.
Thomas Jefferson
U.S. president who purchased Louisiana in 1803
Which developments were part of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency?
Marbury v. Madison decision in 1803
Louisiana Purchase completed in 1803
Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804–05
Embargo Act enacted in 1807
Non-Intercourse Act passed in 1809
Which location was home to many long-standing maroon communities in the southeastern United States?
The Great Dismal Swamp region
Okefenokee Swamp region
Ozark Plateau forests
Mississippi River delta
What were palenques or quilombos primarily?
Spanish colonial forts
Communities of runaway slaves
Mission settlements for conversion
Plantations using paid labor
Bayano is best known for which 16th-century action?
Leading maroons against Spaniards
Building coastal missions
Drafting Panama trade laws
Founding a Portuguese colony
Queen Nanny of the Maroons became notable for what achievement in Jamaica?
Leading guerrilla war to secure sovereignty
Organizing missionary schools for maroons
Negotiating a British trade treaty
Establishing a royal plantation economy
Capoeira originated as which kind of practice among Afro-Brazilians?
A market barter tradition
A spiritual divination rite
A coded language system
A martial art and dance
What does manumission refer to?
Recruiting labor through indentures
Exporting slaves to new colonies
Punishing runaway enslaved persons
Freeing individual enslaved persons
Who were often called Black Seminoles?
Runaway slaves living with Seminoles
Free Blacks trading with Cherokees
Union scouts from contraband camps
Mixed-race Creeks in Alabama
Which conflict followed Seminole refusal to abandon their reservation and involved attempts to remove them under the Indian Removal Act?
Mexican–American War, 1846–1848
Creek War, 1813–1814
First Seminole War, 1816–1819
Second Seminole War, 1835–1842
Slave patrols in the American South primarily aimed to do what?
Catch and control slaves in public spaces
Provide legal counsel to freedmen
Escort planters to court hearings
Protect Black travelers from violence
Which nations make up the Five Nations referenced during the Trail of Tears?
Cherokee
Creek
Seminole
Choctaw
Chickasaw
Emigrationism advocated which idea for free African Americans?
Return to Africa for self-determination
Integrate fully into U.S. society
Migrate to western territories
Remain and form autonomous towns
Black Nationalism emphasized what central belief?
Economic dependence on plantations
Separate identity and racial unity
Religious conversion to Christianity
Political loyalty to colonizers
Self-determination asserts which principle?
Citizenship depends on parental status
Ethnic groups have a right to govern themselves
States must control all cultural expression
Majority rule overrides minority rights
Paul Cuffee used his wealth primarily for which purpose?
Founding a maroon settlement in Jamaica
Establishing cotton mills in New England
Financing abolitionist newspapers
Buying enslaved people to send back to Africa
Martin R. Delany authored which notable work?
Political Destiny of the Colored Race
Narrative of the Life of a Slave
Appeal to the Colored Citizens
The Liberator editorial essays
Anti-emigrationism argued for which approach?
Integration into American society
Permanent settlement in Africa
Segregated Western homesteads
Creation of separate Black states
Birthright citizenship guarantees what?
Citizenship to all children born in a territory
Citizenship with military service
Citizenship only to children of citizens
Citizenship after property ownership
Frederick Douglass became best known for which role after escaping slavery?
Negotiating with slave patrols
Leading abolitionist speaker and editor
Commanding Union cavalry regiments
Founding the American Colonization Society
Which statement best describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793?
Made assisting escape a federal crime
Guaranteed safe passage to free states
Created jury trials for accused runaways
Required written affidavits from owners
Under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, what alarming condition applied to accused runaways?
Arrest without trial based on white testimony
Mandatory jury review within ten days
Transfer to federal marshals for protection
Immediate freedom upon reaching the North
Radical resistance generally involved which forms of action?
Violent resistance and insurrections
Quiet negotiation with owners
Religious fasting and prayer
Petitions to colonial governors
What was John Brown attempting when he was captured and later hanged?
Publishing anti-emigration essays
Negotiating treaties with Seminoles
Petitioning Congress for manumission
Leading a slave revolt by seizing armories
What outcome followed John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859?
Federal arsenal seized, then capture and execution
Successful slave uprising across Virginia
Peaceful surrender negotiated with locals
Northern courts acquitted all participants
The Underground Railroad functioned as which type of network?
Religious missionary travel circuit
Secret routes for escaping slaves
Legal employment placement system
Military supply chain in the North
Sojourner Truth is best described as which figure?
Seminole war leader
Missionary in West Africa
Confederate nurse and diarist
Abolitionist and feminist advocate
In the nineteenth century, what was a carte de visite?
A coded letter used by conductors
Pass granting safe travel to Canada
Small paper photograph on thicker card
A military identification document
What was the Fancy Trade in the context of slavery?
Auction of agricultural tools and clothing
Secret barter among maroon communities
Exchange of artisan crafts by free women
Sale of enslaved women as 'maids' for concubinage
Infanticide refers to which act?
Murder of infants
Neglect of newborns
Abandonment of elders
Kidnapping of children
Which book by Harriet Jacobs highlighted enslaved women’s experiences?
Life of a Slave Girl
Narrative of the Underground
Voices from the Plantation
Trials of a Conductor
Why is Margaret Garner remembered in abolitionist history?
Planned routes on the Underground Railroad
Argued cases as a freedwoman lawyer
Led a strike of plantation workers
Killed her daughter to prevent re-enslavement
During the Civil War, what did the term 'Contraband' refer to?
Illegal Northern trade goods
Arms smuggled to abolitionists
Captured Southern military supplies
Escaped slaves fighting for the Union
Which statement best captures the key limitation of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?
It granted birthright citizenship to formerly enslaved people
It freed enslaved people only in rebelling Confederate areas
It abolished slavery in all U.S. territories immediately
It guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or color
What was General Order No. 3 issued by Major General Gordon Granger?
A directive to begin Reconstruction in Virginia
A proclamation of emancipation to enslaved people in Texas
An order to integrate the Union Army by race
A mandate to establish Freedom Days nationwide
Which amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime?
12th Amendment, ratified in 1804
14th Amendment, ratified in 1868
13th Amendment, ratified in 1865
15th Amendment, ratified in 1870
Which Reconstruction Amendment established birthright citizenship and equal protection?
14th Amendment guaranteeing due process
15th Amendment prohibiting race-based voting limits
16th Amendment authorizing income tax
13th Amendment abolishing slavery
Which amendment barred voting restrictions based on race, color, or previous servitude?
14th establishing equal protection
13th abolishing slavery nationwide
15th prohibiting racial voting limits
17th enabling direct election of senators
Which phrase best defines "enslavement" in the context provided?
Voluntary labor contracts for profit
Collective bargaining by agricultural workers
A system holding individuals as property for forced labor
Temporary indenture for education costs
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin most directly affected which development?
Decline of plantation agriculture in the North
Immediate abolition across Confederate states
Intensification of enslavement in the deep South
Rise of interchangeable parts in railroad building
Fodet is described as which cultural influence?
An African musical system influencing American Blues
A Reconstruction-era legal code on labor
A Confederate battle strategy in Louisiana
A political organization for equal protection
Which event led to stricter slave codes and the gag rule in Congress?
General Order No. 3 in Texas
Denmark Vesey’s planned Charleston uprising
Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion in Virginia
Passage of the 14th Amendment
Moral suasion in abolitionism sought change primarily through what?
Appealing to the oppressor’s conscience against slavery
Organizing armed revolts across southern states
Lobbying exclusively for tariff reform measures
Building segregated schools under separate funding
Which description matches David Walker’s position?
Called for immediate emancipation and resistance to white supremacy
Opposed any public speechmaking by abolitionists
Advocated gradual emancipation through compensation
Promoted colonization of freed people to West Africa only
Which organization focused on supporting insurgency and ending slavery in Cuba?
Freedmen’s Bureau established by Congress
Harper’s Weekly Abolitionist Committee
American Colonization Society based in Liberia
Cuban Anti-Slavery Society founded in New York
Which statements about the Emancipation Proclamation are accurate?
Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863
Used as leverage to pressure Confederacy back to Union
Freed enslaved people only in Confederate territories
Ended slavery nationwide including loyal border states
Match each Reconstruction Amendment to its core protection.
13th Amendment
Abolition of slavery with exception clause
14th Amendment
Birthright citizenship and equal protection
15th Amendment
No racial restrictions on voting
