African Americans in the mid1800s

Enslavers often used extreme methods to control their enslaved people. Which of these is an example how they were controlled?

• giving them the freedom to travel so they would then return

• treating them so well that they wouldn't want to leave

• asking them nicely to work

• beating, whipping, branding, and keeping them dependent

Who resisted slavery by organizing a violent rebellion?

• Nat Turner

• Edward Covey

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Powers

A primary source is...

• the first person to pass on a story

• anything that is true

• a book about history

• the exact words of someone who was there

Which statement is true regarding the living conditions of enslaved people?

• most enslaved people lived in the barn with the horses

• enslaved people that worked in the fields lived in crowded shacks built of wood, most had dirt floors

• enslaved people lived together with their families in small but nice homes

• enslaved people had no houses, they slept in the fields

How were enslaved people treated according to the law?

• as citizens

• as property

• as dependents

• as immigrants

Who was Harriet Tubman?

• a freed person, she led others to take a stand against slave owners

• a freed person, she bought enslaved people and then gave them their freedom

• an escaped enslaved person, she guided enslaved people from the South to freedom

• an escaped enslaved person, she opened a school for those who traveled to Canada

How did enslaved people resist slavery most often?

• rebelling in quiet/passive ways

• by killing their owners

• organizing slave uprisings

• being disrespectful

So...the majority of whites in the South did not own enslaved people. Why on Earth would they support slavery if they don't own enslaved people?

• They knew that the economy of the US depended on the labor of enslaved people

• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South

• They believed they would be able to own enslaved people someday

• They feared the power of the slaveholders

Enslaved people expressed African cultural traditions in all of the following ways except through…

• art

• fieldwork

• music

• folktales

Which of these is an example of a secondary source?

• Mr. Huggins' diary

• a 7th grader's essay on something they learned

• Al Roker reporting from Boston during a snowstorm

• Mrs. Budion describing the car accident in which she broke her nose