Question 1

An enslaved person who learned a trade would most likely have worked for a

Accepted Answer

saddle maker.

Question 2

Enslaved people used ________ as entertainment as well as a means to share secrets about escaping to freedom.

Accepted Answer

music

Question 3

Which describes a common experience for enslaved families?

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Family members often were sold separately and split up from one another.

Question 4

What does the author of this excerpt reveal about the living conditions of enslaved people?

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Enslaved workers were considered to be property, not people.

Question 5

After the Second Great Awakening, most enslaved African Americans

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followed African religions but included some Christian rituals.

Question 6

Which identifies a way most enslaved workers resisted their owners?

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They caused work slowdowns.

Question 7

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 8

The quote was spoken by President Abraham Lincoln to

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 9

Enslaved people who were house workers often

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took care of children.

Question 10

Most enslaved people in the South maintained their family histories by

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passing them down to younger family members.

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