African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Episode 1#

Who did the first African to land in the Americas travel with?

• The British

• The Spanish

• The Germans

• The Japanese

Esteban the Moor and Garrido had a better experience in the Americas than Africans who arrived later in Jamestown.

• True

• False

• Peaches

• Antelope run really fast.

In Virginia and southern colonies, over the 1700's slavery became

• race based, more rigid and fewer opportunities to become free.

• less strict

• less economically important for South.

• a thing of the past. Slavery was banned in 1776.

A major transit point in Africa for the slave trade.

• Cape of Good Hope

• Cairo

• Sierra Leone

• Somolia

African Kingdoms fought against each other and sold captives to Europeans.

• True

• False

In the Americas, no one could tell who was a slave by looking at them after the transcontinental slave trade began.

• True

• False

If you were a slave in a British colony, where is one place you would have wanted to get to?

• Spanish Florida

• French Louisiana

• Portuguese Brazil

• Japan

What often followed slave ships?

• British warships

• Spanish Pirates

• Sharks

• Dragons

African Americans

• maintained their original cultures after arriving in the Americas.

• created a largely new culture.

• copied only European American cultural norms.

• had no culture.

Slaves never revolted in the Americas

• True

• False