Ch 4 Flashcards
The first Europeans to exchange extensively in the African slave trade were the
Portuguese
Planters gained a further advantage from the slave system when
A new law decreased that any investor buying slaves was entitled to a headright of land for each slave
The author of the anti-slavery tract The Selling of Joseph was
Samuel Sewell
The largest migration in human history was the
Forced movement of Africans to the Americas
Of the various stages from freedom in Africa to slavery in the America, the highest mortality rate came during the
Middle passage of crossing the Atlantic
The only English colony to outlaw slavery was
Georgia
By 1700, race slavery
Was accepted throughout the mainland colonies
The highest proportion of enslaved workers occurred in
South Carolina
Figures are not certain, but it is estimated that ______ million Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves
10
By the 1600s, the slave trade was dominated by the
Dutch
The “Ellis Island of black America” was in
South Carolina
The use of African slaves as agricultural laborers was tied to the development of European ______ production
Sugar
Which of the following was NOT true of the situation of African slaves in the North American colonies in the early 1600s?
African Americans received the same “head right” as European settlers
Maryland
Quickly followed the social and economic developments in Virginia
The smallest concentration if slaves was found in
North American colonies
The trustees of Georgia foresaw purposes for the colony including all of the following EXCEPT
Establishing a truly democratic and representative government
Georgia was founded by
James Oglethorpe
To improve the moral climate of Georgia, the trustees
Outlawed the sale and consumption of of alcohol
The form of slave resistance that remained foremost in the minds of slave owners was
An organized slave rebellion
Virginia’s Negro Act of 1705 included all of the following EXCEPT
If a slave owner beat a slave to death, he would be charged with a felony
The ultimate decision when to begin the Atlantic crossing of a slave ship was made by
The ship’s captain
The case of Elizabeth Key vest demonstrates the
Steady movement toward lifetime servitude
In 1750, over Oglethorpe’s objections, the trustees
Allowed importation and exploitation of slaves
By the 1700s, _______ ships controlled the largest share of the African slave trade
British
Initially a slave would be freed if they
Accepted Christianity
The first slaves in England’s North American colonies were in
Virginia
Slaves in the Stono Rebellion had been encouraged to revolt by
The governor of Spanish Florida
The largest slave uprising in colonial North America occurred at
Stono, South Carolina
One of the earliest slave uprisings occurred in
New York City
English involvement in the slave trade was stimulated by the development of plantations in
Barbodos
Slave owners encouraged slaves to form families for all the following reasons EXCEPT it would
Facilitate the adoption of Christianity
At the time of the American Revolution, ______ percent of the population were of African origin
20
Thomas Bray
Believed it would be better to Christianize and educate slaves than to set them free
Christian Priber
Wanted to establish a multiracial “paradise” in southern Appalachia for Indians, Africans, and Europeans
Which of the following was NOT a problem with using indentured servants to meet labor needs
White workers did not work as hard or as efficiency as Africans
The English turned away from the use of Indian slaves for all the following reasons EXCEPT
Most of the nearest tribes had accepted Christianity
Europeans obtained most African slaves through
African merchants along the coast
Forty percent of African slaves crossing the Atlantic came from
The Congo-Angola hinterland
The principal cash crop of South Carolina was
Rice
Children fathered by a freeman and born to a slave woman
Inherited the mother’s slave status after laws had been changed
The greatest obstacle to abolishing slavery was the
Racism of whites who did not believe free blacks could live in a white society
William Byrd
Amassed a fortune in the tobacco and deerskin trades
The event which did the most to push Virginia planters toward race slavery was
Bacon’s Rebellion
Suspicious fires in _______ were thought have been part of slave plot
New York and Charleston
The leader of the Stono Rebellion was a slave named
Jemmey
The first European outpost on the sub-Saharan African coast was
Elmina
The largest number of slaves went to
Brazil
Which of the following was NOT part of the Royal African Company’s triangle trade?
Tobacco and rice from North America to Africa
Slavery in South Carolina was closely patterned after slavery in
Barbodos and the Carribbean
In 1713, England obtained the right to supply slaves to the colonies of
Spain
