III State whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones

1. Initially, English colonists relied on white slaves, but by the late seventeenth century,

the lack of labor force made them to contract with indentured Africans.

2. The first generation of Africans in the New World experienced a period of racial

discrimination and segregation that lasted until the 1660s.

3. In 1662 Nevada institutionalized hereditary slavery--children born of slave mothers would

automatically be slaves, too.

4. Especially in the colonial period, fugitive slaves tried to form runaway

communities known as "maroon colonies."

5. After the American Revolution (1775-83), many colonists (particularly in the

South, (where slavery was relatively unimportant to the economy) began to call for

slavery's abolition.

6. Slavery in the United States was essentially ended by the World War I - vast and

destructive war with far-reaching consequences between the U.S. government

and a confederacy of rebellious northern states (which fought to preserve

slavery).

7. In 1865, the Ku Klux Klan was formed to protect Blacks from the breach of

their new rights and help them to get equal cultural and living standards.

8. In July, 1864 President Lincoln issued an executive order officially integrating

the military services.

9. Discrimination do not exist in any area today and the standard of living exceeds

that of the white population.

10. Their many contributions - though never adequately recognized or given credit - made

America successful and powerful.

IV. Choose the correct variant:

1. In 1641...became the first colony to legally recognize slavery.

a) Virginia

b) Massachusetts

c) South Carolina

2.Virginia recognizes slavery as legal institution, passed on from mother to child in...

a) 1772

b) 1665

c) 1662

3. For every 100 slaves who reached the New World, another 40 had died in Africa or during the...

a) Middle Passage

b) first working days

c) Continental transition

4. The cotton gin was invented in......... by……..

a) 1793, Eli Whitney

b) 1799, John Rolfe

c) 1863, Nat Turner

5. The most common form of opposition to slavery was.......

a) running away

b) "Day-to-day resistance"

c) revolts

6. The desire to abolish slavery became known as the

a) revolutionary movement

b) abolition movement

c) civil-rights movement

7. Free blacks and other antislavery northerners had begun helping fugitive slaves escape from southern plantations to the North via a loose network of safe houses as early as the 1780s. This practice was known as.........

a) Underground Railroad

b) War of Liberation

c) Liberating Mission

8. The.........., adopted late in 1865, officially abolished slavery

a) the 1st Article

b) the 13th Amendment

c) the Anti-slavery Act

9. In 1865 a violent, anti-Black organization was formed to force Blacks to give up their new rights. It was named…...

a) Ku Klux Klan

b) New Black Panthers

c) Skinheads

10. Between 1900 and 1920 many African Americans moved from the south to

northern cities, a population movement called…….

a) “The Chain Migration”

b) “The Impelled Migration”

c) "The Great Migration"

11...........led the civil rights movement in the south and became the major figure in the struggle for equality all over the world

a) Martin Luther King

b) Frederick Douglass

c) Abraham Lincoln

V. Solve the crossword.

Across:

1. Servant who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America was known as .......

2. The period after the civil war in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the union.

3. The first slave ship that came to America in 1619 was........

4. The system which was adopted by slaveholders who owned large plantations. Under this system enslaved people were organized into work gangs that labored from sunup to sundown.

5. A prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer, editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "the liberator", and one of the founders of the American anti-slavery society.

6. A plantation supervisor who, watched over and directed the work of others.

7. A person, who supports the end of slavery.

8. A runaway or fugitive slave.

Down:

1. The first colony which legalized slavery.

2. A group of people wanted to end slavery.

3. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race, religion, or sex.

4. The last free colony which legalized slavery.

5. A president which was elected in 1861, during the time of slavery.

6. An abolitionist, who was regarded as the most famous African American of his time because of his efforts in the fight against slavery; one of the leaders of abolition movement.

7. A system of slave labor under which a slave had to complete a specific assignment each day. After they finished, their time was their own. It was used primarily on rice plantations.

8. A kingdom in Africa built on the effectiveness of firearms, prospered enormously because of slave trade and the economy relied on capturing and selling slaves.

9. West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade.

10. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper’s ferry, Virginia in 1859

11. The distinctly American type of music with a basis in African American folk traditions.