History activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, with questions developed about the prohibition of the slave trade and abolition in Brazil.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
1) Slave labor accompanied the four centuries of economic, political and social formation in Brazil. The enslavement of Africans contributed to:
a) the crisis of the monarchic regime
b) the formation of great fortunes
c) installation of consumer goods industries
d) skilled labor
2) The first blow against slavery was in 1850, with the prohibition of the slave trade, decreed by the Eusébio de Queirós Law. From the following year, it intensified:
a) the demonstrations in favor of human rights
b) the increase in the urban population
c) political instability
d) the sale of slaves
3) From the 1860s onwards, the movement for abolition gained strength in the country. However, a large part of the Brazilian agrarian elite resisted the idea of the end of slave labor. Even in the west of São Paulo, the coffee growers wanted to extend slavery as much as possible, fearing:
a) revolts
b) lack of skilled labor
c) the fall in agricultural production
d) low livestock economy
4) The Rio Branco Law (Lei do Ventre Livre), of 1871, declared the children of slaves born after that date free. Free children would be:
a) with the closest free family
b) with the mother up to 8 years of age
c) with the mother up to 2 years old
d) with the families of the farmers
5) Around 1885, the abolitionist campaign became more intense. Associations and clubs took a stand against slavery, advertising and raising funds to:
a) help the slaves to escape
b) the freed to support themselves for some time
c) the purchase of letters of enfranchisement
d) pay for slaves to remain on the farms
Per Camila Farias.
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