African AmeAfrican Studies Mid Term Exam

Northern states respond to the issue of slavery after the Revolution by

• Beginning to free their slaves

• Increasing the importation of slaves

• Making it impossible for masters to free their slaves

• Doing nothing about slavery

_____________ was the first to use fire

• hominids

• homo erectus

• homo habilis

• Homo sapiens

Leg of the Triangular Trade that brings slaves from Africa to the Americas was known as

• African diaspora

• Indentured voyage

• Marimba transfer

• Middle Passage

Maroons resist slavery by

• Using violence against their masters.

• Refusing to work until they received their wages

• Sending letters to government officials asking for their freedom.

• Running away to form communities.

___________ fertile soil provided by the floods made farming easy and help develop a thriving community.

• Zambezi River

• Congo River

• Niger River

• The Nile

The _______________ culture is a mixture of African and Arabic cultures

• Kushites

• Nubian

• Bantu

• Swahili

Egyptian writing system that used pictures and symbols is known as

• Egyptian hieratic

• hieroglyphics

• Tifinagh

• Meroitic

The _________ made and traded iron goods making the the first industrial center in Africa.

• Swahili

• Kushites

• Egyptians

• Arabs

The process of acculturating newly arrived slaves into the plantation system by training them to be slaves, giving them new names and preparing them for sale to British North America

• revitilizing

• adoption

• adaption

• seasoning

Saves were allowed to work unsupervised after having completed their daily duties this allowed them to retain their African culture.

• limited labor system

• merit system

• gang system

• task system