• 1. 
    In 1641 which of England’s American colonies became the first to recognize slavery as a legal institution?

  • Massachusetts
  • New York
  • Virginia
  • South Carolina
  • 2. 
    In 1865 which state became the first of the former Confederate states to enact laws, known as black codes, that severely limited the rights and liberties of Black people?  

  • Virginia
  • North Carolina
  • Mississippi
  • South Carolina
  • 3. 
    What year did Kentucky ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which was ratified by three-fourths of the U.S. states in 1865?

  • 1976
  • 1952
  • 1919
  • 1875
  • 4. 
    Which of the American colonies’ courts decided that a child born to an enslaved mother was automatically enslaved?

  • Virginia’s
  • Pennsylvania’s
  • Georgia’s
  • South Carolina’s
  • 5. 
    Which of the American colonies had the largest enslaved population by the 18th century?

  • Massachusetts
  • New England
  • Connecticut
  • Rhode Island
  • 6. 
    What year did the Massachusetts Bay Colony pass laws differentiating slave labor from the contract labor of indentured servants, taking away the rights of enslaved people?

  • 1704
  • 1660
  • 1640
  • 1641
  • 7. 
    What year were enslaved Africans first brought to Virginia, beginning a long-term slave trade between Africa and English (later British) North America?

  • 1619
  • 1750
  • 1690
  • 1775
  • 8. 
    By 1775 how many of the 2.5 million inhabitants of Britain’s 13 American colonies were enslaved?

  • 450,000
  • 500,000
  • 550,000
  • 400,000
  • 9. 
    In 1829 free Black people living in which two U.S. states could be charged with a crime and sentenced to death for distributing antislavery materials there?

  • Arkansas and Florida
  • Virginia and West Virginia
  • Georgia and Mississippi
  • North Carolina and Virginia
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