Slavery Unit 1

Question 1

What crop created the initial demand for slavery in the Caribbean and Western Hemisphere?

Answer 1

Sugar

Question 2

The major European Slave trade began with what country’s exploration of Africa?

Answer 2

The Portuguese

Question 3

What part of Africa did the majority of slaves come from?

Answer 3

West Africa

Question 4

What part of the world were the majority of slaves exported to?

Answer 4

Brazil or British ports

Question 5

What is Chattel Slavery and how is it different from forms of slavery that came before it?

Answer 5

Chattel Slavery is an enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children’s children are automatically enslaved.

Question 6

How did the slave trade impact the future of the United States?

Answer 6

The slave trade impacted the future of the United States by building a foundation for the American economy and trade system. This benefited the United States because slave labor was free labor.

Question 7

What country exported the most slaves?

Answer 7

The British, French, Portuguese

Question 8

By 1836 half the US economy revolved around the production of what crop?

Answer 8

Cotton

Question 9

Before this invention, cotton was a crop with little demand.

Answer 9

The cotton gin

Question 10

What European country was 100% dependent on America’s cotton supply?

Answer 10

The British

Question 11

Why were slaves a valuable but risky investment?

Answer 11

Because they could get sick and die or they can revolt and kill you and ur family.

Question 12

Which 7 states were the wealthiest in the US by 1860? Why?

Answer 12

Mississippi because they had the most slaves in labor working the plantations.

Question 13

Who owned slaves? How much were they worth in today’s dollars?

Answer 13

Rich whites owned slaves. In todays dollars slaves can range from 15,000 -30,000 depending on their health.

Question 14

By 1860 had a majority slave population?

Answer 14

4 Million

Question 15

What does Mulattoes mean?

Answer 15

A person of mixed white and Black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one Black parent.

Question 16

In what year was slave importation banned?

Answer 16

1810

Question 17

Charles Deslondes led what slave revolt?

Answer 17

German Coast Uprising

Question 18

The Baptist War was fought where, and between who?

Answer 18

slaves in the Colony of Jamaica. and the British

Question 19

What was the largest slave rebellion in the British Controlled Caribbean?

Answer 19

The Stono Rebellion was the largest slave revolt ever staged in the 13 colonies.

Question 20

Gabriel’s Rebellion

Answer 20

This Slave rebellion was unique in that the leader of the rebellion was a blacksmith and made several of the weapons used in the rebellion.

Question 21

Haitian Revolution

Answer 21

Slaves overthrew french rule and controlled government

Question 22

Stono Rebellion

Answer 22

South Carolina. It was the largest slave rebellion in the Southern

Question 23

Nat Turner Rebellion

Answer 23

Turner and his followers started at his master’s house and killed the entire family. They marched throughout Southampton County in Virginia, killing at least 55 people until white authorities crushed the revolt. Turner avoided capture for nearly two months before he was caught.

Question 24

Maroon Communities:

Answer 24

A group of formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants who gained their freedom by fleeing chattel enslavement and running to the safety and cover of the remote mountains or the dense overgrown tropical terrains near the plantations.

Question 25

Antebellum

Answer 25

Before war

Question 26

Cash crop

Answer 26

A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.

Question 27

A Concurrent Majority

Answer 27

is a majority composed of majorities within various subgroups.

Question 28

Paternalism

Answer 28

Paternalism is the interference with the liberty or autonomy of another person, with the intent of promoting good or preventing harm to that person