HIST106
Prince hall is best known for his connection to ______.
Freemasonry
Who organized a slave uprising near Richmond, VA in 1800?
Gabriel
The Articles of Confederation ________.
Gave the states considerable autonomy
Toussaint L'Ouverture led the struggle for ________ independence
Haitian
What was a consequence of trade between west Africa and North Africa?
It facilitated the spread of Islam into west africa
What was the result of the three fifths clause in the constitution?
It gave the South increased political power in the House of Representatives.
What is true about Islam?
It recognizes Jesus as a prophet
What was true of the sexual exploitation of slave women by white men?
It was common throughout the south
What was distinctive about term slavery?
It was not for life
The Nubians established an independent kingdom known as _.
Kush
As a group, African Americans suffered from ______.
Lactose intolerance
Which of the following prevented widespread conversion of slaves to Christianity before the 1730s?
Masters worried that conversion would be seen as a step toward freedom
Benjamin Banneker's abilities as a ______ led to employment with the federal government
Mathematician
Which of the following was stipulated by slave codes passed in the Chesapeake between 1660 and 1710?
Slaves could not marry
What is true of slavery in west Africa?
Some slaves owned property and held positions of power
What was the largest of the empires in western Sudan?
Songhai
What helps explains why agricultural technology was relatively primitive in the cotton kingdom?
Southerners preferred to invest in slaves rather than in machines.
In the late sixteenth century, the Netherlands sought independence from _.
Spain
_ was the first European nation to actively colonize the americas.
Spain
As a consequence of the 1763 peace treaties that ended the French and Indian war, ______
Spain took control of French louisiana
At what age did slave children begin to perform adult fieldwork?
Between 8 and 12
The first black schools were founded by _______.
Black mutual aid societies and churches
John adams believed that ________.
Black people were not entitled to the same rights as white people
What was true of the low country by 1740?
Black slaves made up 90% of the population in vicinity of Charleston
Solomon northup was _____.
Born free in NY
Nathaniel Bacon was a(n) _
English aristocrat who had recently migrated to Virginia
Brer Rabbit represented ______.
Enslaved African americans
During the American revolution, African Americans ________.
Fought on both sides
How did Thomas Jefferson respond to the poetry of phillis Wheatley?
He was dismissive of it
Griots were _.
Self-employed poets
Mali was _ than ghana
wealthier
At the end of the war, about _______ black peoples left with the the British as they withdrew from South Carolina and Georgia.
20,000
As a result of the war for independence, roughly _____ percent of the slave population of South Carolina escaped
30
Between 1790 and 1860, the slave population in the region between the Atlantic coast and Texas increase by almost ______ percent.
600
James Forten rose to prominence as a ______.
Bussinessman
The French Revolution ________
Strengthened pro slavery sentiment in the United States
what message did slaves hear in plantation churches?
That slaves were to obey their masters
The first draft of the Declaration of Independence denounced ________.
The Atlantic slave trade
Maroon communities were made up of
Escaped slaves
In what way were black southerners unique among new world slave populations?
The population grew by natural reproduction
What may have originated in Nubia and then spread to Egypt?
The production of grain and the concept of monarchy
The American anti slavery movement began with ______.
The quakers
What helps explain why slave health improved after 1830?
The rising economic value of slaves
What helps explain why it is so difficult to generalize about west African society and culture?
The scarcity of written records
The major early roots of African American culture lay in the civilizations that emerged in _?
West africa
In Frederick Douglass's view, masters ______.
Whipped their slaves for almost any reason
Where was rice cultivation important?
in the low country of South Carolina and Georgia
Miscegenation resulted in a(n)
mixed race population
Slave clothing was generally __________.
sparse, as they generally received clothing from the master only twice a year
What turned Jamestown into a profitable enterprise?
tobacco cultivation
What helps explain why the 32 people of African descent who arrived in Jamestown in the early seventeenth century were not considered slaves?
The English did not have a law establishing slavery
What helped strengthen the institution of slavery?
The U.S. constitution
What best explains the growth in the slave population in the low country before 1750?
The arrival of new slaves from Africa
The people's of the forest region were particularly important in African American history because they played a large role in _?
The atlantic slave trade
What played the largest role in the decline of kush?
The decline of rome
______ helped facilitate the expansion of cotton cultivation
The expansion of the Atlantic slave trade
The decline of slavery in the Chesapeake contributed to ____.
The expansion of the domestic slave trade
What was true of cotton cultivation?
Cotton was the nations most important crop
What helped tie the empire of Mali together?
Commerce
According to al bakri, the city of Ghana was _
Divided into two towns
The sickle cell blood trait protected African American slaves from ______.
Malaria
The sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and sally hemings began when he was 44 and she was _______.
14
In the decade before the civil war, about ___ slaves per decade moved toward the southwest.
150,000
Beginning in the ______ historical records in Virginia suggest a tendency to view African Americans as slaves.
1640s
The Declaration of Independence _________.
Accused the British of formenting slave uprisings
What was generally true of land cultivation in west Africa?
Agricultural tasks were divided by gender
What was most likely to be freed by a slaveholder in the Deep South?
An elderly slave who could not work
Africa is bounded by the _ to the west
Atlantic Ocean
Which of the following cemented the connection between slavery and race in British America?
Bacon's rebellion
What is true of both the multi regional and out-of-Africa models of the evolution of Homo sapiens?
Both models are supported by genetic evidence
Most west African monarchs _
Claimed divine or semidivine status
A group of slaves who were chained together for transport or sale was known as a ____[[[
Coffle
In _____, all children born to enslaved mothers after March 1, 1784, became free at age 25.
Connecticut
Crispus Attucks was killed ______
During the Boston massacre
Benjamin lay was a(n)
Early opponent of slavery
In the late twentieth century, afrocentrists regarded ancient _ as an essentially black civilization.
Egypt
What was the earliest civilization in Africa?
Egypt
Wheatley believed that black people should
Embrace christianity
The Sahel is a(n) _.
Huge grassland
What best characterizes the relationship between African Americans and American Indians during the colonial period?
Indian and African Americans had a complex relationship
The term refers to
Interracial sexual contact
John Locke applied the ideas of _______ to politics.
Isaac newton
_ established England's claim to the east coast of North America.
John Cabot
Who was closely associated with the great awakening?
Johnathan Edwards
How did freedom suits in the early eighteenth century differ from freedom suits in the lay eighteenth century?
Late eighteenth century suits increasingly focused on principles of universal liberty.
In November 1775 ________ offered to free slaves who joined his army
Lord Dunmore
What led George Washington to reconsider his stand on black enlistment?
Lord Dunmore's proclamation
The committee of slaves from Boston who petitioned the Massachusetts general court in April 1773 _______.
Made arguments based on human rights
Elizabeth Freeman is best known for challenging the legality of slavery in ______.
Massachusetts
Under the terms of the Missouri compromise, ______ entered the union as a slave state.
Missouri
What was true of most slave holders in the Chesapeake in the eighteenth century?
Most slave holders owned five or fewer slaves
What was true of the religion of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century?
Most were protestants
Ancient Egyptian society was profoundly shaped by the _.
Nile River
At the outset of the revolutionary war, George Washington _______
Opposed the enlistment of black troops
The sons of liberty took a leading role in ______
Opposition to the tea act
Who was the most important black advocate of migration to Africa in the early nineteenth century?
Paul Cuffee
White southerners responded to events in Haiti by ______.
Placing greater restrictions on black people
West Africa's indigenous religions were _.
Polytheistic
The U.S. Constitution ________.
Prevented congress from abolishing the slave trade until 1808
The stamp act, the sugar act, and the townshend acts were all designed to _______.
Raise revenue
Jupiter Hammond poetry focused on _ themes
Religious
Eli Whitney's cotton gin made it easier to _______.
Remove seeds from cotton bolls
What factors explain why the free black population increased dramatically after the American revolution?
Revolutionary ideology and a changing econom
What was true of slave life in the colonial period?
Rice was a key part of the diet of low country slaves
What rebellion was directly linked to the decision to hold a constitutional convention in 1787?
Shay's rebellion
The Dutch writers who described Benin city were impressed by the city's _.
Sheer size
What was the significance of the northwest ordinance of 1787 for African Americans?
The ordinance set a legal and geographical precedent for limiting where slavery could and could not exist.
What factor encouraged the formation of African American community institutions?
The value African Americans placed in their African heritage
Why did Richard Allen and others end their association with St. George's church?
The white congregation discriminated against them
What made the uprisings led by Gabriel and Deslondes different from early slave rebellions?
Their goal was to destroy slavery
What helps explain why slavery was weak in the north in the late eighteenth century?
There was a steady supply of cheap white labor
What limitation did black people encounter after the revolution?
They faced economic difficulties and barriers to training and skilled job entry
What was true of early anti slavery societies
They generally called for gradual, compensated emancipation
What was true of anti slavery societies in the upper south?
They generally small and short lived
How did most Americans become familiar with the ideas of John Locke?
Through pamphlets written by British radicals
What was the objective of the proclamation line of 1763?
To limit colonial settlement in the west
What was the motive behind the establishment of Jamestown?
To make a profit
Aside from financial reasons, why did some black people become slave holders?
To protect their families from sale
Anthony Johnson
Was a black man who became a planter and slave owner
Which historian argued in the 1910/ that slavery was a generally benign institution in which slave holders cared for happy slaves?
Ulrich B. Phillips
Most west Africans lived in _.
Villages
_____ had the largest slave population in 1820.
Virginia
What was true of the Indian peoples of what is now the eastern portion of the United States?
Women often participated in ruling councils
Under chattel slavery, enslaved African Americans were the legal equivalents of __________.
livestock
Low-country plantations focused on the cultivation of __________.
rice