Problem
Define the following terms:
a) fur trade
b) import duties
c) Patriots
d) Sons of Liberty
e) Continental Congress
f) Age of Revolution
g) freedom suits
h) Loyalists
i) Continental Army
j) hired their own time
Answer the following questions:
A. What factors were involved in the crisis of the British Empire?
B. Why is Crispus Attucks a symbol of African American patriotism still?
C. What did the Declaration of Independence mean to African Americans?
D. Who is Phillis Wheatley? How does Wheatley's letter reflect principles associated with the Enlightenment and what insights does it provide on her views on slavery and its abolition?
E. Who is Benjamin Banneker?
F. What was the African-American role in the War for Independence?
G. How did the American Revolution weaken slavery?
H. What were the far-reaching implications of the intellectual and political leadership that African Americans exercised during this period, and how did they push themselves closer to freedom?