African American History Mid-Term Review 2024

Ancestral home to most Black Americans

West Africa

What was the Middle Passage?

Journey of slaves transported from Africa to the Americas

How were the profits used for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?

Fund the industrial revolution

How did the English view the slave trade by the early 1800s?

No longer saw the slave trade as necessary

Products the Europeans desired that led to the need for forced labor?

Sugar, tobaccos, cotton, indigo, rice

Meaning of the term “seasoning”

period of adjustment Africans underwent after arriving to the Americas

First permanent British colony

Jamestown, Virgina

What were the first to do with regards to slavery?

indentured servants were used as laborers more often than slaves because people in the middle colonies objected the idea of slavery

Classification for people of mixed race

Mulatto

Meaning of miscegenation

interracial marriage

Role played by Crispus Attucks

First American African whose death became a symbol for revolution

Benjamin Banneker

First black civilization to work for the U.S

Impact of black men fighting on the side of the Patriots.

Cause Washington to enlist black slaves to fight in the war

Significance of this phase “that freedom which the Great Parent of the Universe hath bestowed equally on all mankind….”

Struck from the declaration of independence because of southern opposition

Phyllis Wheatley

First African American poet to have her poet publish

How did the War of Independence change the face of slavery?

100,000 slaves who escaped the plantation

How did the Constitution strengthen the political power of the southern?

They were able to get the the three-fifth clause added

Impact of the invention of the cotton gin

Cotton became the leading export crop

Founder of the AFRICAN Grand Lodge of North America

Prince Hall

Reason for the founding of the first independent black church in 1794

Most of the white represents refused to worship with the blacks

Leader of the Haitian Revolution

Toussaint L’ Ouverture

Why didn’t white Southerners want blacks in the army during the War of 1812?

They didn’t want them to access guns to start a revolt

Missouri Comprosie

Missouri entered the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state

What do you know about South Carolina and Mississippi?

Blacks outnumbered the white population

Role of the house servants in the 19th century

They worked 27/4

Effects of sickle cell trait on African Americans

Serve pain, frequent inflection early death

Origins of the term “Jim Crow”

Segregation of the rail rods

Fredrick Douglas’ critique of separate black congregations

Negro pew on a high large scale

David Walker’s role in the abolition movement

Advocate the use of violence

Reason why Nat Turner was inspired to lead a revolt

He claimed he saw visions

Who were William Llyod Garrison and Sojourner Truth?

abolishist fighting against slavery

What was the North Star"?

News Paper written by Fredrick Douglas

Role played by slaves aboard the Amistad

the slaves revolted against the crew but sailed North and eventually captured by the U.S Navy