461 history

I. Fill in the gaps with the following words:

III.Read the text on Slavery and find synonyms for the
following words and expressions:

president ,reason, soldier(s), plantation(s), people, history, place

different_________
accepted__________
went on ___________

The American Civil War

This took 1 ________between 1861 and 1865 and was a war between
the Northern States (the Union) and the Southern States (the Confederacy)
of the United States of America. The 2_________ was that the Northerners
with their leader Abraham Lincoln, wanted all the 3 __________ to be free.
The Southerners, however wanted the black people to work as slaves in their
4 _______________..
The war, where Americns fought Americans, was the deadliest in
American 5 _________. In the four years it lasted, more than 600,000
6_____________
died. Finally, the Union won the war, ending the slavery of black people in
America and Abraham Lincoln became 7 _________ of the United States in
1865.

II. Complete the text with the Present Simple form of the
verbs in brackets:
The Mississippi River
The Mississippi River___________(begin) at Lake Itaska, high in the
mountains of Minnesota, and___________ (run) 2,320 miles (3,734km) down

to the Gulf of Mexico. It _____(to be) the second longest river in America
and it_________( go) through some of America’s greatest cities, like those of
Menphis and New Orleans.
The name Mississippi__________( come) from the Native American
language and it_______( mean) ’Great River’. People also____________( call)
it other names like ’Old Blue’ and ’Body of a nation’ This_________( show) how
important it_______( to be) for the people. It____________( to be) very
rich in animal and plant life and people___________( use) it not only to move
goods and people, but also for fishing and sailing.

flourishing_____________
circumstances__________
tolerates______________

The history of slavery is very old. People often used other people as
slaves for various reasons. In many ancient civilisations like those of Ancient
Egypt, Greece or Rome, and olso in many places in Asia, Africa and America,
slavery was a usual situation.
This practice continued for years throughout the world. In America
especially, from the 16th to the 19th century, the slave trade was a very
successful business, bringing black people from Africa to work in the
plantations of the Southern States. African slaves worked in the plantations
to produce cotton, tobacco and sugar. Working conditions were usually very
hard and living conditions very poor. Also their masters often treated the
slaves cruelly, because to some of them a slave was nothing but an object.
After the American Civil War, slavery in the United States ended. Today no
country in the world accepts slavery.

IV. Connect the beginning of each sentence with its end :
Native

1.
2.
3.
4.

Americans
The Europeans who went to North America
They found the local people,
They lived in tribes or nations, such as the Apache and Cheyenne,
By the time Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn, in 1884, the white
settlers had moved the Native Americans
a)
b)
c)
d)

out of their homelands into far away places, called
reservations. ,
those that today we call Native Americans.
did not arrive in an empty continent.
and each had their own land and territory.


Key: I
1. place
2. reason
3. people
4. plantations
5. history
6. soldiers

7. president
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6.
7.
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IV.

begins
runs
is
goes
comes
means
call
showes
is
is
use

various

usual
continued
I-c, 2,-b, 3-d, 4-a.

successful
conditions
accepts