Week 12: Slavery in America Flashcard

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When did Congress pass the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves?

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1808

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How was the Gullah Geechee culture created?

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Several African tribal cultures were blended.

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What is the most likely reason children did not receive much food in the passage: "We children had no supper, and only a little piece of bread or something of the kind in the morning." - Annie L. Burton, Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days, 1909?

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They did not have to work as hard as the adults.

Front

What was the title of Solomon Northup's book? Options: Free at Last, My Enslaved Life, Twenty Years a Slave, Twelve Years a Slave

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Twelve Years a Slave

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What did Douglass say would happen to slavery?

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The doom of slavery is certain.

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What can be inferred from the passage: "When there no partitions each family would fit up its own part as it could; ...when they could not get boards they hung up old clothes ... The two families had to use one fireplace." - Jacob Stroyer, My Life in the South, 1898?

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Families had to share meals together.

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The children of enslaved people were freed at age 25.

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False

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What was Sojourner Truth's name when she was enslaved?

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Isabella Baumfree

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What did the lady of the house teach Douglass?

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the alphabet

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What was the trip from Africa to America called?

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The Middle Passage