Ch 4

Question 0

The first Europeans to exchange extensively in the African slave trade were the

Answer 0

Portuguese

Question 1

Planters gained a further advantage from the slave system when

Answer 1

A new law decreased that any investor buying slaves was entitled to a headright of land for each slave

Question 2

The author of the anti-slavery tract The Selling of Joseph was

Answer 2

Samuel Sewell

Question 3

The largest migration in human history was the

Answer 3

Forced movement of Africans to the Americas

Question 4

Of the various stages from freedom in Africa to slavery in the America, the highest mortality rate came during the

Answer 4

Middle passage of crossing the Atlantic

Question 5

The only English colony to outlaw slavery was

Answer 5

Georgia

Question 6

By 1700, race slavery

Answer 6

Was accepted throughout the mainland colonies

Question 7

The highest proportion of enslaved workers occurred in

Answer 7

South Carolina

Question 8

Figures are not certain, but it is estimated that ______ million Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves

Answer 8

10

Question 9

By the 1600s, the slave trade was dominated by the

Answer 9

Dutch

Question 10

The “Ellis Island of black America” was in

Answer 10

South Carolina

Question 11

The use of African slaves as agricultural laborers was tied to the development of European ______ production

Answer 11

Sugar

Question 12

Which of the following was NOT true of the situation of African slaves in the North American colonies in the early 1600s?

Answer 12

African Americans received the same “head right” as European settlers

Question 13

Maryland

Answer 13

Quickly followed the social and economic developments in Virginia

Question 14

The smallest concentration if slaves was found in

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North American colonies

Question 15

The trustees of Georgia foresaw purposes for the colony including all of the following EXCEPT

Answer 15

Establishing a truly democratic and representative government

Question 16

Georgia was founded by

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James Oglethorpe

Question 17

To improve the moral climate of Georgia, the trustees

Answer 17

Outlawed the sale and consumption of of alcohol

Question 18

The form of slave resistance that remained foremost in the minds of slave owners was

Answer 18

An organized slave rebellion

Question 19

Virginia’s Negro Act of 1705 included all of the following EXCEPT

Answer 19

If a slave owner beat a slave to death, he would be charged with a felony

Question 20

The ultimate decision when to begin the Atlantic crossing of a slave ship was made by

Answer 20

The ship’s captain

Question 21

The case of Elizabeth Key vest demonstrates the

Answer 21

Steady movement toward lifetime servitude

Question 22

In 1750, over Oglethorpe’s objections, the trustees

Answer 22

Allowed importation and exploitation of slaves

Question 23

By the 1700s, _______ ships controlled the largest share of the African slave trade

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British

Question 24

Initially a slave would be freed if they

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Accepted Christianity

Question 25

The first slaves in England’s North American colonies were in

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Virginia

Question 26

Slaves in the Stono Rebellion had been encouraged to revolt by

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The governor of Spanish Florida

Question 27

The largest slave uprising in colonial North America occurred at

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Stono, South Carolina

Question 28

One of the earliest slave uprisings occurred in

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New York City

Question 29

English involvement in the slave trade was stimulated by the development of plantations in

Answer 29

Barbodos

Question 30

Slave owners encouraged slaves to form families for all the following reasons EXCEPT it would

Answer 30

Facilitate the adoption of Christianity

Question 31

At the time of the American Revolution, ______ percent of the population were of African origin

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20

Question 32

Thomas Bray

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Believed it would be better to Christianize and educate slaves than to set them free

Question 33

Christian Priber

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Wanted to establish a multiracial “paradise” in southern Appalachia for Indians, Africans, and Europeans

Question 34

Which of the following was NOT a problem with using indentured servants to meet labor needs

Answer 34

White workers did not work as hard or as efficiency as Africans

Question 35

The English turned away from the use of Indian slaves for all the following reasons EXCEPT

Answer 35

Most of the nearest tribes had accepted Christianity

Question 36

Europeans obtained most African slaves through

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African merchants along the coast

Question 37

Forty percent of African slaves crossing the Atlantic came from

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The Congo-Angola hinterland

Question 38

The principal cash crop of South Carolina was

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Rice

Question 39

Children fathered by a freeman and born to a slave woman

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Inherited the mother’s slave status after laws had been changed

Question 40

The greatest obstacle to abolishing slavery was the

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Racism of whites who did not believe free blacks could live in a white society

Question 41

William Byrd

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Amassed a fortune in the tobacco and deerskin trades

Question 42

The event which did the most to push Virginia planters toward race slavery was

Answer 42

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 43

Suspicious fires in _______ were thought have been part of slave plot

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New York and Charleston

Question 44

The leader of the Stono Rebellion was a slave named

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Jemmey

Question 45

The first European outpost on the sub-Saharan African coast was

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Elmina

Question 46

The largest number of slaves went to

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Brazil

Question 47

Which of the following was NOT part of the Royal African Company’s triangle trade?

Answer 47

Tobacco and rice from North America to Africa

Question 48

Slavery in South Carolina was closely patterned after slavery in

Answer 48

Barbodos and the Carribbean

Question 49

In 1713, England obtained the right to supply slaves to the colonies of

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Spain