America Revolution

Slave

By the 1730s, I out of every 6 people living within the Thirteen colonies was a ______

North

The slave trade gave way to industries in the ______ such as shipbuilding, iron foundries, sawmills, run distilleries and sail making

Land and slave

In colonial times, the acquisition of _____ and ______ served as steeping stones towards power and influence

Goat

Only men who owned property could ______

Household

Child slaves tended to work in the _______ because they were considered more “teachable” and less threatening

The great awakening

_____________ was the mid 1700s spiritual movement which attacked oppression, tyranny, and slavery

Two or three

The average planter(farmer) owned _____ or _____ slaves and farmed about 200 acres of tobacco

False

True or False: George Washington’s slaves, especially children, were well maintained and clothed.

Stamp

In 1765, Parliament passed ________ act. This was the first direct tax levied against colonies

Rebirth, Christ

Newly freed people regarded their emancipation as a _______. Many committed themselves to ________

Nation

By 1770s, Black people saw their freedom with the freedom of the ________

True

True or False: Free Black people faced the threat of being kidnapped and re-sold into slavery

Crispus Attucks

In 1770, on of the Boston Massacre’s victims was a runaway slave named ______

True

True or False: Black enslaved people petitioned the Continental Congress demanding their freedom

Phyllis Wheatley

__________ was kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold to a prominent Massachusetts family. She baecme a noted poet during the 1700s

American Revolution

The 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord started the ______

George Washington

______________ was appointed as a chief commander of the Patriot forces

Slaves

Initially, 18# was opposed to _________ joining the continental army

Lord Dummore

In 1775, Virginia governor ______________, issued a proclamation promising freedom to enslaved men if they joined the loyalist (pro-British) effort

Ethiopian

#20 Called his band of Black soldiers ________

Declaration independence

Ironically, the 1776 ____________ asserted that all men were created equally

Thomas Jefferson, 200

The main author of #22 was ___________ who owned over ___ slaves

5,000

Ultimately, about ______ black men served in the continental army and navy

The book of negroes

_________ was a record of Black people who had joined the British in New York City and provide documentation of their tine with the British as the American Revolution came to close

False

True or False: The words “slavery” and slave are directed stated in the U.S. Constitution

False

True or False: In the aftermath of new American independence, the newly created American government and its main document(the U.S. constitution) DID NOT protect the institution of slavery