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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was the slave who freed him/herself who said he/she had worked enough and "you can't make me work no more?"
2. What did the overseers term the slaves' acts of ignorance?
3. What was President Lincoln's original reason for starting the Civil War?
4. Why were Native African slaves more fortunate than slaves born into slavery?
5. What was another thing that was included in the "share" package?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Slavery was not always present in the United States nor were the blacks the first slaves. Why did slavery begin and how did colonists eventually move to using blacks as slaves? How were the slaves captured and how did the slave trading begin?
Essay Topic 2
The process of slave trading was complicated and extremely cruel. Discuss the process of slave trading and what it entailed. How were the slave treated and why were they treated as such? Who was involved? How did the slave traders treat men? How did they treat women and children? What tricks did slave traders use and what forms of cruelty? Be sure to discuss not only how slaves were captured for trade in Africa but also the auction block and results of slave trading on the slave families and their emotions.
Essay Topic 3
Many people blame the national government for many problems. In the case of slavery, what role should government have played? Should they have intervened years before and if they had, what might have resulted? When the Civil War started, it was not because of slavery. Was this, too, a fault of the government for not making the issue of slavery a primary concern? How did it eventually become a primary concern? And after the war ended, what plans did the government have for the end of slavery, if any? How did President Abraham Lincoln handle things?
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