Slavery in America Review/Conclusion

Which was NOT a common form of resistance among enslaved people?

• Violent armed rebellion

• Running away

• Feigning illness

• Breaking tools and slowing the pace of work

In the Declaration of Independence, what percentage of enslaved people were included

in the line “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they

are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life,

liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

• 0%

• 25%

• 50%

• 100%

Which was NOT a condition of life for enslaved people?

• Hard work, even for women and children

• Isolation, subjugation and fear of punishment

• The ability to always keep families intact

• The ability to hunt, fish and grow gardens to supplement their diets

Which formally ended slavery in the United States?

• 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Treaty ending the Civil War

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

Which was the reason the South seceded from the Union?

• To preserve states’ rights

• To preserve slavery

• To protest taxes on imported goods

• To avoid rapid industrialization

Communities of enslaved people created music to...

• Entertain enslavers in the Big House

• Pass the time

• Express dreams and frustrations

• Influence popular culture

Laws outlining the rights of slave owners and the enslaved

• Indigenous Americans

• Indentured

• Debtors

• slave codes

Slavery was not abolished until after this

• Civil War

• American Revolution

• Civil Rights Movements

• 1865

All people who were enslaved came from Africa.

• True

• False

The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

• end fighting between mid-western farmers and Native Americans

• encourage manufacturing in the West

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories