African American History Midterm 2

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What did the Three-Fifths Clause/Compromise address?

How representatives were chosen

Who was the first published African American poet?

Lucy Terry

Which of the following relates to Jamestown in 1619

20 and odd n

Which event occurred first?

20 Africans arriving at Jamestown

What was one proposed solution to ending discrimination of Blacks by Whites in the United States?

Gradual compensated emancipation in West Africa

What document governs the country today?

The US Constitution

What is the source of this quote:

“in case any person or persons shall willfully cut out the tongue, put out the eye, castrate or cruelly scald, burn, or deprive any slave of any limb or member, or shall inflict any other cruel punishment, other than by whipping or beating with a horsewhip, cow-skin, switch or small stick, or by putting irons on, or by confining or imprisoning such slave”

1740 Slave Acts

Which crop was especially tied to the task system in the Low Country?

Rice

Which of the following began the process of orderly expansion of the US

Northwest Ordnance

What was the largest slave uprising in Britain’s North American colonies?

Stono Rebellion

According to class discussion, what is diaspora?

The dispersal of Africans to the Americas and their return

Who led the successful slave rebellion on the island of St. Dominique?

Toussaint L’Ouverture

What document said that people had the right to abolish the government?

The Declaration of Independence

Which of the following is true of the Ghana Empire?

It covered parts of modern Mauritania, Mali, and Senegal

What were Freedom Suits?

The enslaved suing for their freedom

When was the first documented importation of African American from West Africa to what would become the United States

1619

Which of the following is correct?

Miscegenation is the soiling of pure white blood producing mixed race children

What system did Spain use in the first decades of the sixteenth century to extract forced labor and tribute from American Indians?

Encomienda

What is the Key Term for a legal means to free a slave?

Manumission

Which of the following is a reason Dr. Black thinks you should immediately fail this class?

Thinking Africa is one country

Where did the “door of no return” lead?

Door leading out to the slave ships

What was true about the task system?

enslaved people were assigned specific jobs for the day

Which of the following occured partially because of the St. Dominique/Haitian Rebellion?

Louisiana Purchase (1803)

Which of the following best applies to the Key Term: Mutual Aid Society

Founded by Free African Society

What was true about the Stono Rebellion?

It led directly to the 1740 South Carolina N Act