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58 Cards in this Set
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What were the two states where African-Americans outnumbered Whites in antebellum years?
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Mississippi and South Carolina
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What was the last northern state to initiate abolition?
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New Jersey
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Anti-Black sentiment was most common in what northern territory?
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The Old Northwest
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In what 1803 purchase did the U.S. buy territory from France
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The Louisiana Purchase
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Who led a famous rebellion in South Haven County Va. in 1831
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Nat Turner
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In size, Africa ranks where among the continents?
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2nd largest behind Asia
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Herodotus said Egypt was:
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The gift of the Nile
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Who made a pilgrimage to Mecca from Mali in 1324?
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Monsa Moussa
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Who wrote Amazing Grace after repenting for his sins as a slaver?
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John Newton
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Main crop of the Colonial Chesapeake area?
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tobacco
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First permanent colony, founded by the British in 1607
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Jamestown
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Who was behind tobacco in Va, proving that it could grow and be cultivated?
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John Roth
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Who was the foremost example of an African-American landowner that began as an indentured servant in the 1600s?
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Anthony Johnson
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In 1640 3 Va. servants ran away from their master, but were caught. The two White servants had time added to their servitude, while the Black man became a slave indefinitely. Who was this man?
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John Punch
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Who was the African-American that was killed in the Boston Massacre?
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Chrispus Attucks
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Phyllis Wheatley lived in what colony/state?
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Massachusetts
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Benjamin Banniker helped survey:
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Washington D.C.
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The turning point in the American Revolution was:
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the Battle of Saratoga in the Hudson River Valley, NY
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The British royal governor that started recruitment of African-Americans in the British loyalist cause was:
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Lord Dunmore
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The African-American woman that fought on the battlefield as a Patriot Soldier was:
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Debrah Sampson
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U.S. President that instigated war with Mexico:
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James K. Polk
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Term used to excuse expansion across the nation and world:
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Manifest Destiny
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Toni Morrison's novel tells the story of this slave in the 1850s. She was from Kentucky and killed her child to prevent enslavement.
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Margaret Garner
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Hundreds of thousands of Europeans arrived in the U.S. during the 1840s from:
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Germany and Ireland
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Joseph Cinque led a rebellion on:
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La Amistad
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Armed men of Missouri were often referred to as what, due to their violent boarder-crossing into Kansas to support the pro-slavery movement?
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Boarder Ruffians
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Who was the leading opponent of the 1830-1840 gag role?
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John Quincy Adams as a congressman after leaving the White House
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What state was hemp most associated with?
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Kentucky
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The French aristocrat that wrote the North was more antagonistic towards Blacks than were Southerners was:
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Which state's supreme court first struck down slavery as unconstitutional?
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Massachusetts
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The most prominent Black advocate for immigration to Africa in the 18-teens was:
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Paul Cuffie
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The most prominent Black advocate for immigration to Africa in the 18-teens was:
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Paul Cuffie
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Deslondes is noted for the 1811 slave rebellion in which state?
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Louisiana
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In 1815, Andrew Jackson and 600 free Blacks win a big battle over Britain, despite already having reached a treaty. What battle was this
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The Battle of New Orleans
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Who was the 14 year old girl that was executed for killing her master, despite being raped many times by this man?
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Celia
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Black loyalists were most common in what two states?
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Georgia and South Carolina
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The first political party to advocate for an immediate end to slavery was:
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The Liberty Party
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Gabriel's rebellion was set to take place in:
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Virginia
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What state was Benjamin Banniker from?
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Maryland
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Was jumping the broom an African or European tradition?
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A European tradition
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What mosque, located in Timbuktu, became a center for theology, law, medicine, and science?
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the Sankore Mosque
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There was only one country that had a net natural increase of its Black population. What country was this?
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The United States
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African-American novelist William Wells Brown wrote Clatel, also known as The President's Daughter about which president and his slave?"
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Thomas Jefferson
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It is commonly known that Liberia was founded for freed American slaves. What nation was founded for freed British slaves?
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Sierra-Leone
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T/F David Weaver was White.
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False
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Cornish and Rustworm published the first African-American newspaper beginning in 1827. What did they call it?
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The Freedom Journal
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The two major parties of the 1840s were:
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The Whigs and the democrats
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Who led the rebellion on the Creole?
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Madison Washington
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Who was the abolitionist newspaper editor that was a chief advocate for the Canada West movement in the 1850s?
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Mary Ann Shad
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Frederick Douglas published his newspapers in what state?
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New York
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The two slaves that escaped from Georgia in disguise were:
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William and Ellen Craft
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What escaped slave required hundreds of men to return him to slavery in the 1850s?
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Anthony Burns, people of Boston rally around him
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In the Cristiano Riots, Edward Dorsich dies while attempting to reclaim a run-away slave. What state did this occur in?
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Pennsylvania
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Maine was created by the Missouri Compromise. What state was it formerly part of?
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Massachusetts
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For how many years after the constitution was ratified did it protect the transatlantic slave trade?
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20
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Colonists called what disease the Bloody Flux?
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Dysentery
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What was the name of the slave that sued for his freedom in a supreme court case?
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Dred Scott. Loses.
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What act repealed the Missouri Compromise?
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The Kansas-Nebraska act for popular sovereignty
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