Lecture 4

Question 1

Marronage

Answer 1

Running away or escaping from the slave owner or the slave master or the slavery plantation and to live in the maroon societies, swamps of the southern States

Question 2

The underground railroad

Answer 2

Network of sympathetic people and “safe houses” ( a largely informal network of some 3,200 people of all races in the north and west who helped fugitives slaves make their way to freedom)

Question 3

The brush arbors

Answer 3

Secret place of meeting of black people

Question 4

America revolutionary war

Answer 4

Black soldiers in the war (April 19, 1775-sep.3,1783)

Question 5

Which wars did black people fight in before the revolutionary war

Answer 5

• king William’s war (1690-1697)
• Queen Anne’s war of (1702-1713)

-King George’s war of (1744-1748)

-The French and indianwar(1755 - 1763)

Question 6

1770: crispus attucks

Answer 6

(Afro-indian)l Americas first martyr killed in the Boston massacre

Question 7

Boston massacre (March 5,1770)

Answer 7

Riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, where the troops fired on the mob and killed several people

Question 8

November 1775 George Washington

Answer 8

Forbade Black men from fighting on the British side; 20,000 black men joined