Unit 2 Pt. 1 APAAS Crossword

1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435
Across
  1. 3. During the cotton boom in the, many African Americans were forcibly relocated through the domestic slave trade from the upper South (inland states like Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Missouri) to the lower South.
  2. 5. Describes how production of cotton became extremely valuable thanks to the cotton gin, expanding slavery.
  3. 6. The US legal document which established counting Black people as 3/5th a person, recapturing enslaved people, and the electoral college to preserve slavery.
  4. 14. Leader of the Haitian Revolution who inspired uprisings in other enslaved communities.
  5. 17. an enslaved African healer from Morocco forced to work in 1528 as an explorer and translator in Texas and in territory that became the southwestern United States.
  6. 18. the forced journey of enslaved people across the Atlantic in which roughly 15% were murdered.
  7. 20. the number of people who were victims of the transatlantic slave trade.
  8. 21. the 350 year+ practice of enslaving Africans and bringing them to the "new world" to be sold and used for their labor.
  9. 26. the only uprising of enslaved people that resulted in overturning a colonial, slaveholding government. It transformed a European colony (Saint-Domingue) into a Black republic free of slavery
  10. 27. The first free Black town in the US, located in Spanish Florida.
  11. 28. the part of Africa most impacted by slave trading and kidnapping.
  12. 29. included hunger strikes, jumping overboard, forming revolts.
  13. 33. An organized rebellion of over 100 enslaved people, with arms and drums, who set fire to plantations in Spanish Florida- leading to the 1740 SC slave codes.
  14. 34. political texts aimed to end slavery and the slave trade, demonstrate Black humanity, and advocate for the inclusion of people of African descent in American society.
  15. 35. Used in agricultural slavery, a system where enslaved people were forced to work in groups.
Down
  1. 1. A group of racist people who wanted to deport free Black people back to Africa to "civilize" Africans.
  2. 2. A form of sewing art used as resistance by Black women to pass coded messages.
  3. 4. The selling off of husbands, wives, children, and other enslaved people from their families and communities. Known as “The Weeping Time” because so many tears were shed.
  4. 5. Rhythmic musical performance from Africa involving one leader invoking a call and others in the group responding.
  5. 7. Used as a form of punishment and control of families, to keep people from rebelling or escaping.
  6. 8. songs enslaved people sang to articulate their hardships and hopes
  7. 9. A ship of Mende people who revolted and sued the US government for their freedom.
  8. 10. A law that stated the status of a person (free/enslaved) depended on the status of their mother.
  9. 11. the system in which enslaved people and their descendants are classified as property and not as humans and are considered enslaved for life
  10. 12. Spain’s name for an area that included Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia.
  11. 13. A word used to incorrectly describe slavery as "gentle" and "kind"
  12. 15. a conquistador born in the Kingdom of Kongo, moved to Lisbon, Portugal. A free man, he became the first known African to arrive in North America.
  13. 16. combined rhythmic and performative elements from Africa (e.g., call and response, clapping, improvisation) with biblical themes, creating a distinct American musical genre.
  14. 19. The enslaved man who led the Stono Rebellion.
  15. 22. Laws created to prevent enslaved people from resisting or exercising their humanity in society.
  16. 23. being uprooted from one's social/cultural/ geographic environment
  17. 24. free and enslaved Africans who acted as translators in the conquest of the Americas.
  18. 25. An enslaved Senegambian who fought against the English in the Yamasee War and found refuge in St. Augustine.
  19. 30. Describes enslaved people who were Painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers
  20. 31. Used in agricultural slavery, a system where enslaved people were forced to work according to a quota.
  21. 32. A man who sued the US for citizenship, leading courts to decide no Black person was a citizen.