INDENTURED SERVITUDE AND SLAVERY, REGIONAL RESOURCE DIFFERENCES, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, PP. 114-116 (32) Flashcards
Which of the following regions of Virginia did
the English settle FIRST?
Which of the following export crops was MOST
important to colonial Virginia’s economy?
Compared to rice production in the colonial
Carolinas, tobacco production in Virginia took
place
Which of the following groups FIRST used
indentured servitude in British North America?
Individuals signing indenture contracts
exchanged a promise of future labor for
How did ship captains earn a profit from the
indenture system?
Which of the following systems largely replaced
indentured servitude in British North America
by the 1770s?
Which of the following colonies depended MOST
on rice as an export crop?
Colonial-era Mid-Atlantic farms largely raised
Which of the following figures is CLOSEST to
the total United States population at the 1790
Census?
Approximately how many enslaved people lived
in the United States at the 1790 Census?
Gini coefficient measures the
In a scenario of perfect equality, the Lorenz
curve forms a
Which of the following formulas calculates the
Gini coefficient in a visual representation of the
Lorenz curve?
In colonial America, the Gini coefficient among
ALL households is CLOSEST to