Black history quiz part A

cotton

white gold

1619

the first africans brought to VA as slaves

manumission

the act of a slave owner setting slaves free

emancipation

the governmental act of setting slaves free

carter G. Woodson

founder of black history month

13th amendment

abolishes slavery in U.S

benjamin Banneker

freeborn african american. helped to survey the new capital, washington, D.C.

what are the three period of black american history

Slavery:1619-1865 246 years
Segregation:1865-1954 89 years
Post-Segregation: 1954-To now (2025)

what is cash crop agriculture

farming where you grow crops to receive cash, exampes would be tabbaco, cotton, and rice.

what is the atlantic slave trade

segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century