AP AFAM Topic 2.20 - 2.28 (2023-24)

Which of the following was NOT consider 1 of the Five Civilized Tribes

• Creek

• Seminoles

• Choctaw

• Cherokee

• Sioux

Answer explanation

The Five Civilized Tribes were the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole

Which of the Five Civilized Tribes fought against white encroachment of their land?

• Sioux

• Seminole

• Cherokee

• Creek

Answer explanation

The Seminole Tribe participated in the Seminole Wars. The most significant of these was the Second Seminole War which lasted from 1835-1842.

Who were the Black Seminoles?

• A maroon society of fugitive slaves welcomed by the Seminole tribe.

• African American officers in the army who were paid significantly less than White officers.

• Undercover African American spies in the Union Army.

• A group of musicians who traveled the South singing spirituals to enslaved men and women.

Answer explanation

EK 2.20.A.1: Some African American freedom seekers (maroons) found refuge among the Seminoles in Florida and were welcomed as kin. They fought alongside the Seminoles in resistance to relocation during the Second Seminole War from 1835 to 1842.

Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which led to the ____________________________

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 13th Amendment

• Trail of Tears

• War of 1812

Which Black Seminole leader led the largest slave escape in history, by taking other enslaved people to Mexico for freedom.

• Olaudah Equiano

• Gopher John aka John Horse

• Abraham

• Harriet Tubman

Which of the following Black Seminole leaders fought alongside the British at Prospect Bluff which would later become Fort Negro?

• Abraham

• Gopher John aka John Horse

• Thomas Jesup

• None of these are correct

True or false: Black Seminoles have always received fair and equal treatment among the Seminole Tribe.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Black Seminoles were welcomed as kin but the embrace of slavery made it difficult for mixed race Black-Indigenous people to be recognized as members of Indigenous communities. (EK2.20.A.4).

What best describes the purpose of the Arkansas Petition?

• African Americans were not being treated equally in Arkansas.

• Native Americans were being held in slavery in Arkansas and deserved equality.

• Native Americans were still holding Blacks in slavery despite it's abolition.

• Arkansas had not complied with the Emancipation and had not rejoined the Union.

To leave one's own country to settle permanently in another.

• Colonization

• Immigrate

• Emigrate

• Periodic Migration

Emigrationists promoted moving to which of the following places? Select all that apply.

• Central and South America.

• West Indies

• West Africa

• Great Britain