Jigsaw Activity Worksheet

Name ___________________________________

Directions: (1) Using the sources, collaboratively fill in your assigned section in detail in your expert
groups.
(2) When meeting with your home groups, complete the worksheets.
(3) A list of bullets is sufficient.
(4) This will not be graded, BUT to receive credit for the activity, you must turn in
this
completed sheet.

GROUP 1
Free Woman of Color:
1. Briefly describe what you see in the image. Be sure to look at the people, the background, what
they are wearing, etc. Make assumptions about the people in the image.

2. How can you tell she is free?

3. Who is the young girl in the picture?

4. What was happening during this time in history?

GROUP 2
Colored American (Newspaper – read the opening passage and the March 4th entry)
5. Who founded this newspaper?

6. Why did the authors believe a newspaper was necessary?

7. What was the main purpose of the Colored American?

8. What evidence did they use to support their argument?

GROUP 3
Purchase of an enslaved person by a mulatto man:
9. What does the document represent?

10. How do you know that blacks owned slaves?

11. Is there a relationship between how much real estate a person owned and how many slaves he/she
owned?

12. Is there a relationship between the job a person had and the number of slaves he/she owned?

13. Why did black “free persons of color” buy slaves?

GROUP 4
Black Population:
14.

ALL GROUPS

21. What the benefits from mining uranium on these lands? Who benefits from uranium
mining on these lands? What are the impacts (e.g. health, economic) on the Navajo peoples
and the local environment?