AP African American Studies

In what ways did slaves resist?

• Pretending to be sick

• Working slowly

• Running away

• all of the above

True or False: On occasion, slaves would revolt or rebel as a way to resist

• True

• False

Many enslaved Africans died of malnutrition or disease in the middle passage.

• True

• False

Why were Africans captured and forced to work in the Americas?

• To spread Christianity

• To give them diseases

• To share riches and wealth with them

• To provide more workers for plantations

Slaves were captured from _____

• England

• Europe

• Africa

• France

Capturing, transporting, and selling people is called the 

• slave auction

• overseer

• slave trade

• Middle Passage

Which of these best describes the Underground Railroad?

• a series of tunnels used to move slaves to free states

• people who secretly helped slaves escape to the North

• transportation system that moved slaves to freedom at night

• people who caught fugitive slaves and returned them to owners

What were slave codes?

• Secret messages sent by slaves to one another

• Laws to control the behavior of slaves

• A language created by slaves that was used to communicate

• The path slaves traveled to gain freedom

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A series of trains and underground tunnels that helped transport slaves to freedom

• A set of maps that showed how much work slaves did each day

• The name of a famous slave ship

• An organized, secret system set up to help enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North

What is the middle passage?

• the trip from Africa to the Americas

• the trip from England to Africa

• the trip from Africa to England

• the trip from England to the Americas