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What is self-deception?
A lie you tell but are intimately connected to and aware of
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What is feudalism?
A social system with lords at the top and serfs at the bottom
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They were cheap, plentiful, and identifiable
Three reasons why Africans were seen as the ideal labor supply for the colonies
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Who is Christopher Columbus?
The person who said about indigenous people of the Bahamas, “With only 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
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What is Jamestown, VA?
The first permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607
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What are the blues?
Autobiographical sorrow songs born out of the plantation slavery experience
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What is racism?
______ created the races for its purpose of domination
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Eight
_____ of the first ten presidents owned slaves
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Who is Maya Angelou?
The late African American poet, activist, and author of "Still I Rise"
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What is 1619?
First slaves were brought to the what would become the United States in this year
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What is power?
The ability to achieve purpose or the production of intended effects
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What is the Spanish empire?
The majority of Africans brought to the Americas as slaves went to the territories of this European empire
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What is the three-fifths compromise?
The section of the Constitution that enabled southern slaveholders to count their slaves partially as population and partially as property to boost their population numbers
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Who is W. E. B. Dubois?
The African American intellectual who said that the “problem of the 20th century was the problem of the color line”
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Who were indentured servants, Redemptioners, and convicts?
Three groups of Europeans that came to the colonies in an effort to replace forcible indigenous labor
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What is subjugation?
To take advantage of or exploit unjustly
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What is white supremacy?
the unnamed ideology that made the modern world what it is today, created and perpetuated by Europeans and people of European descent
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Zero
The number of the 55 delegates to the First Constitutional Convention who voted to abolish slavery
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Who is Hernan Cortes?
The Spanish explorer who conquered Aztec territory in 1521
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What is necklace with tokens?
Columbus used this to determine how much gold each Indian produced every three months
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What is the bourgeoisie?
A French word and Marxist concept that refers to the upper middle class elites of a society
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What are encomiendas?
Spanish plantation systems where the Spanish enslaved indigenous peoples; similar to concentration camps
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The relentless frenzy for profit and the total dehumanization based on racial hatred
Two characteristics that distinguished American slavery from other forms of slavery
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Who is John Brown?
Leader of the rebellion at Harper’s Ferry
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What is the Bahamas/Hispaniola?
Columbus' first point of landing in the Americas
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