Slavery in the United States
Look at the map below and answer the questions.
1.) How would you describe the data in the map above? Are there any trends?
2.) How many more slaves did Georgia have than Missouri, Delaware, and Maryland combined?
3.) How many slaves were in the Carolinas?
4.) On the map below, did the yellow states combined total a population of one million slaves? How
many more or less?
5.) Based on the map, can you estimate the STATE that had the highest population?
6.) About what percentage of the total slaves in the South live in Georgia?
Answers
Slavery in the United States
Look at the map below and answer the questions.
1.) How would you describe the data in the map above? Are there any trends?
States in the “deep south” and along the Gulf Coast had the highest percentages of slave populations.
States farther north had lesser percentages of slave populations
2.) How many more slaves did Georgia have than Missouri, Delaware, and Maryland combined?
258,280
3.) How many slaves were in the Carolinas?
,280
4.) On the map below, did the yellow states combined total a population of one million slaves? How
many more or less? Yes: 4,490
5.) Based on the map, can you estimate the STATE that had the highest population? Virginia
6.) About what percentage of the total slaves in the South lived in Georgia? 11.7% = 12%