US Commemorates 400th Anniversary of Slavery in America

VOANews: US Commemorates 400th Anniversary of Slavery in America

This August marks the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia. Their arrival was the start of what would become one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history, 224 years of slavery. VOA's Chris Simkins takes us to the place history was made and reveals how these first African slaves, along with the many who followed, and their descendants, shaped the course of a nation.

POP QUIZ

USCIS 100:60. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

USCIS 100:64. There were 13 original states. Name three.

USCIS 100:73. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

USCIS 100:74. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

USCIS 100:75. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?*

USCIS 100:76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

USCIS 100:53. What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?