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 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 _ was that the Northerners with their leader Abraham Lincoln, wanted all the to be free The Southerners, however wanted the black people to work as slaves in their _ The war, where Americns fought Americans, was the deadliest in American _ In the four years it lasted, more than 600,000 _ died Finally, the Union won the war, ending the slavery of black people in America and Abraham Lincoln became _ 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 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 place reason people plantations history soldiers president II 10 11 III 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