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    The document provides a review of key topics covered in Chapters 1-4 of an African American history unit exam, including: 1) Africa is the ancestral homeland for most black Americans and the largest continent. Early civilizations like Egypt built along the Nile River and followed religions like Egyptian mythology. 2) Enslaved Africans endured horrific conditions during the Middle Passage voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas in crowded, disease-ridden ships. Mortality rates were high. 3) After arriving in the colonies, blacks and whites were used as indentured servants and slavery gradually expanded. Enslaved Africans resisted through various means while black soldiers fought on both sides of the American Revolutionary War

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    African-American History Unit 1 Exam Review

    Chapters 1 & 2

    1)  Which area is the ancestral homeland for most black Americans?


    2)  There are seven continents in the world. Africa is: (size)
    3)   One of the earliest civilizations in the world and built along the Nile River is:
    4)  Egyptians believed in: (Religion)
    5)  A ship's size determined is capacity. Most captains:
    6)   Africans born in the Americas were preferred by the planters over those Africans who were
    new arrivals because:
    7)   The humiliation of enslaved Africans continued once they were ashore, where they were:
    8)   Columbus was looking for Japan or India and accidentally landed in:
    9)  The middle passage was the:
    10)  The Portuguese were the first Europeans to trade with the people of North Africa and:
    11)   The European ships that brought Africans across the Atlantic Ocean in the eighteenth
    century were called ________.
    12)  Originally, the Europeans were looking for sources of trade and wealth with:
    13)   The mortality rate on the slave ships was high because of crowded, unsanitary conditions
    and seaboard epidemics, and it is said that:
    14)  European crew members brutalized the Africans aboard the ships because:
    15)   Oftentimes enslaved Africans had to be "prepared" before being sold, so the ship's crew
    would:
    16)  "Seasoning" is the term used to describe:
    17)  What three areas were involved in the Triangular Trade?
    18)   Many Africans who were shipped to the Americas were enslaved as a result of the warfare
    that accompanied the formation of West African states.
    19)   Conditions on board slavers wre horrible and many slaves died during the long voyage,
    most from disease.
    20)   The Atlantic slave trade did not come to an end until the early nineteenth century, when a
    combination of moral and economic factors led to its abolition by Britain and the U.S.

    Chapter 3 & 4

    1)  Native Americans are called American Indians because:


    2)  Blacks and whites were used as indentured servants in the colonies:
    3)  The British were the first people to:
    4)  As the black population grew in the British colonies:
    5)   Enslaved Africans resisted slavery and oppression on every level by:
    6)  Crispus Attucks was:
    7)  The cry for independence from Britain was:
    8)  During the revolutionary period:
    9)  The British recruited blacks to be in the Loyalist army, while:
    10)  Black men fought on the Patriots' side from the beginning to the end:
    11)  Some states allowed the enslaved Africans to serve in the military:
    12)  Like their white Loyalists counterparts, many black Loyalists:
    13)  Which of the following is NOT a charasteristic of Thomas Jefferson?
    14)   Which of the following words was used by colonists to describes how they felt they were
    being treated by the British Government?
    15)  This plan wanted the new congress to decide membership based off of population alone.
    16)  This plan wanted the new congress to be made up of equal representation.
    17)   This plan combined both equal representation and population-based representation to make
    up members of congress.
    18)  This compromise determined how to count slaves, in setting up representation in congress.
    19)  Who defended the British Soldiers in a court of law following the Boston Masacre?
    20)  Some black soldiers fought for the British during the Revolutionary War. (True/False)

    Essay Question:

    You will be given three essay questions. You have to answer any TWO.

    1. How did the Revolution improve the situation for blacks in the South? (p. 130-132)
    2. What radical changes came out of the Revolution for many blacks? (p. 128-132)
    3. How was slavery in the Northern colonies different from the South? What explains these
    differences? (p. 95-96 i.e. slave codes, assimilation, agriculture etc.)

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