O'Reilly's History Quiz
Abolishing Slavery
This week in history, Congress voted to abolish the slave trade. Take the quiz for some hard facts on slavery and get more familiar with what was going on at the time.
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1. Congress voted to abolish the slave trade with Africa on March 2 of what year?
2. What other country banned the slave trade from Africa in the same year as the United Sates?
3. When did the first shipload of slaves arrive in the colonies?
4. While slaves where numerous, what other group outnumbered them prior to 1680?
5. How many slaves were estimated to be in the United States in 1790?
6. Which was the first colony to abolish slavery?
7. What clause was inserted into the Constitution in 1787 as a compromise population count, valuing slaves less than free people in political representation?
8. The invention of what machine made cotton a major industry in the South?
9. Which was the last country to abolish slavery in the Americas?
10. By 1865, how many African slaves had been shipped across the Atlantic?



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