100 Points Question: This Connecticut inventor invented the cotton gin.

2. 100 Points Question: This Connecticut inventor invented the cotton gin. Answer: Eli Whitney

3. 200 Points Question: The expansion of enslavement in the early 19th century was due to the ____________, Jefferson’s deal brokered with the French that doubled the United State’s size. Answer: Louisiana Purchase

4. 300 Points Question: The trade of enslaved Americans of African descent born in the United States, also called ____________, grew with the introduction of . Answer: domestic slave trade

5. 400 Points Question: Tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton are four examples of __________ or crops cultivated for revenue alone. Answer: cash crops

6. 500 Points Question: To satisfy the need for enslaved people in the Southeast, enslaved people from these two original thirteen states: _______ & _________ were sold away from their homes and families with great frequency. Answer: Virginia and Maryland

7. 100 Points Question: The African-based creole language of ________ was spoken among men and women of African descent in the low country of Savannah and Charleston. Answer: Gullah

8. 200 Points Question: The brief takeover of Virginia government by an interracial group of colonists, indentured servants and enslaved people was called _____________ in honor of its leader, Nathaniel Bacon. Answer: Bacon’s Rebellion

9. 300 Points Question: These Virginia laws emerged between 1660 and 1710 and promoted enslavement as the assumed condition for people of African descent: Answer: Black codes

10. 400 Points Question: Contrary to English common law, in the American colonies and successor states, the status of a child as free or enslaved followed the condition of his/her ________. Answer: mother

11. 500 Points Question: Written into the state constitution in 1777, which state was the first to end enslavement?. Answer: Vermont

12. 100 Points Question: The incident aboard the slaver __________--where over 100 sick and dying Africans were thrown overboard to their deaths for insurance money--got the English public more interested in the cause of abolition.. Answer: Zong

13. 200 Points Question: English men and women arrived in the Virginia colony to become __________, a type of unfree laborer. Answer: indentured servants

14. 300 Points Question: English explorers like Sir Francis Drake allied with ___________ or communities of enslaved people, to raid Spanish colonies in the late sixteenth century. Answer: Maroons

15. 400 Points Question: British royal officials initially agreed to ban enslavement in _________, during the colony’s founding. Answer: Georgia

16. 500 Points Question: The _____________, a British company that bought and sold captive Africans, had James I of England and John Locke as stockholders with controlling interests. Answer: Royal African Company

17. 100 Points Question: The White abolitionist __________________, proposed immediate emancipation for enslaved people of African descent gradually achieved. Answer: William Lloyd Garrison

18. 200 Points Question: Founded in Boston in 1830, the _____________ was the first interracial abolitionist organization in America. Answer: American Anti-Slavery Society

19. 300 Points Question: This Black abolitionist advocated that people of African descent use violence if necessary to attain their freedom. Answer: David Walker

20. 400 Points Question: _____________ , or playing to people’s emotions about the wrong of enslavement, is the method by which White abolitionists tried to convince White Americans of the wrong of enslavement. Answer: moral suasion

21. 500 Points Question: Published by William Lloyd Garrison, Boston abolitionists used the newspaper called ______________ to promote their anti-slavery agenda. DAILY DOUBLE Answer: The Liberator

22. 100 Points Question: This compromise, reached between Southern and Northern delegates to the Constitutional Convention stated that African Americans would be counted as three-fifths of their numbers by the United States census. Answer: Three-Fifths Compromise

23. 200 Points Question: The United States Constitution avoids using the word _________ to describe unfree African American laborers across the new nation. Answer: slave/enslaved

24. 300 Points Question: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was slated to end in the United States in the year ________. DAILY DOUBLE Answer: 1808

25. 400 Points Question: This 1793 Act made it more difficult for enslaved people to escape enslavement. Answer: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

26. 500 Points Question: Southern congressional representation increased after the ratification of the Constitution because the enslaved population ___________. No other New World colony or country with an enslaved population accomplished this feat. Answer: increased

27. 100 Points Question: 1791 event where the enslaved population of the French colony of St. Domingue rose up against the master class, defeated them and established a modern Caribbean nation. Answer: Haitian Revolution

28. 200 Points Question: This called for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and the drawing of an invisible line at the 36° 30′ north parallel to determine where enslavement would be allowed. Answer: Missouri Compromise

29. 300 Points Question: This organization, made up of abolitionists, politicians and slave owners established an American colony in Liberia, West Africa to which African Americans were expected to repatriate upon gaining their freedom. Answer: American Colonization Society

30. 400 Points Question: This enslaved Virginia freedom fighter planned and executed an attempt at gaining the liberty of his enslaved compatriots and himself and was executed for it. Answer: Gabriel

31. 500 Points Question: The capital of the American colony of Liberia, West Africa, named after the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe. Answer: Monrovia