Name: ___________________________________________________ 12/11/2009

Directions – working in groups, find the answers to all the questions asked below. For
some of the answers you might have to think a little. All questions were taken directly
from the slides. You may use your notes and the textbook. Do your best. I am expecting
this to be completed this class period.

1. Name all the slaveholding Presidents of the United States

2. Who was Phillis Wheatley?

3. Explain the events of the New York City Slave revolt

4. What were the “slave codes”?

5. What does manumission mean?

6. Explain the events of the Stono Rebellion

7. What was the Negro Act of 1740?

8. What was the French and Indian War?

9. What was the Proclamation Line of 1763?

10. Why was the Proclamation Line of 1763 created?

11. What was the Stamp Act?

12. EC how was the Stamp Act mentioned in roots?

13. What was the Boston Massacre?

14. Why was Crispus Attucks important?

15. What are natural rights?

16. What did the Declaration of Independence say about slavery?

17. What was Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation? Why was it important?

18. How many African Americans fought for the British?

19. How many African Americans fought for the Americans?

20. Who was James Armistead?

21. Who was Salem Poor?

22. What did Salem Poor do at the Battle of Bunker Hill?

23. Why didn’t Salem Poor fight in the army after Bunker Hill?

24. Who was John Brown?

25. What did John Brown believe?

26. What did John Brown’s forces do in Pottawatomie, Kansas?

27. Why did John Brown attack the armory in Harpers Ferry?

28. EC How many rifles were in the armory?

29. How did Frederick Douglass feel about the Harpers Ferry raid?

30. EC what were John Brown’s last words?

31. Who was Richard Allen?

32. What does AME stand for in the AME Church?

33. Who was Absalom Jones?

34. What is the American Colonization Society?

35. Who founded Liberia and why?

36. What did Eli Whitney invent? (2 things, remember?)

37. What does the Cotton Gin do?

38. EC what does Gin stand for?

39. What invention caused an increase in the demand for cotton?

40. What is cotton?

41. How much cotton could one person clean without a Gin?

42. How much cotton could one person clean with a Gin?

43. Who was Dorie Miller?

44. What medal did he win?

45. What was Miller’s job?

46. What is the Constitution of the United States?

47. What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?

48. What is the 3/5ths Compromise / Clause?

49. When did the international slave trade end?

50. What does the term Internal Slave Trade mean?

51. Where is Haiti?

52. Who used to rule Haiti?

53. Who was Toussant Loverture?

54. Haiti was the second what in the western hemisphere?

55. The Haitian revolution was the largest what of all time?

56. Who was Gabriel Prosser? Describe him.

57. How was Gabriel described?

58. Who was Gabriel going to kidnap?

59. Who did Gabriel say was not to be killed?

60. Why did Gabriel’s Rebellion fail?

61. What was the Missouri compromise?

62. Why was the Missouri Compromise important?