greatreporter.com, October 8th, 2007
The first African slaves were brought to the
USA
in 1501. When was the importation of slaves finally banned?
Slaves were promised freedom if they agreed to fight on the British side in the American War of Independence.
Which African state was created by white liberals in 1822 as a place for returned slaves to settle?
What was the name given to the network of liberal Northeners who spirited slaves out of the Deep South in the mid 1800s?
The Freedom Federation
Question 5 of 10:Which escaped slave became one of
America
's first black civil rights celebrities when he published his memoirs in 1845?
Richard
Wright
Question 6 of 10:Which classic 1852 novel about Southern blacks caused a huge upsurge in white support for the anti-slavery movement?
Billy Budd
Question 7 of 10:Contrary to popular belief, slavery was NOT the key issue that sparked off the American Civil War.
Which American president kickstarted the political process that would lead to 1865's freeing of the slaves?
Ulysses S.
Grant
Question 9 of 10:The period following the Civil War, in which freed slaves began living their own lives in the South, was called what?
Resurrection
Question 10 of 10:Which infamous set of laws, passed in the late 1800s, led to the segregation that
Martin
Luther King
would later fight?
The John Rooster laws
