Slavery and the West

Question 1

Enslaved persons sang call-and-response songs to

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help each other work together.

Question 2

Which describes a common experience for enslaved families?

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Family members often were split up from one another.

Question 3

What unexpected effect did Christianity have on many enslaved people?

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Christianity gave them ideas about freedom.

Question 4

Most enslaved people who learned to read and write gained that knowledge

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on their own, in secret.

Question 5

Enslaved people who were house workers often

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took care of children.

Question 6

Where did most routes on the Underground Railroad lead?

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to Canada

Question 7

Supervisors who were in charge of enslaved field workers were called

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overseers.

Question 8

For most enslaved African Americans in the 1800s,

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clothing was handed out once a year and was given only to those who could continue to work.

Question 9

What was one important result of formerly enslaved people writing personal narratives?

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Their stories influenced the abolitionist movement.

Question 10

To keep their family histories alive, enslaved persons

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passed their histories down to the next generation.

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