Unit 1- Virginia Essay

Question 0

Trial of Thomas Key

Answer 0

Key has Mulatto offspring with slave and offspring is freed

Question 1

1636

Answer 1

Trial of Thomas Key

Question 2

Significance of Trial of Thomas Key

Answer 2

Court says blacks should be free

Question 3

1639

Answer 3

Requirement to bear arms

Question 4

1640

Answer 4

John Punch runs away with two whites = black gets harsher punishment than whites

Question 5

1662

Answer 5

H of B law to pass freedom based on the mother

MAKES SLAVES HEREDITARY

Question 6

1667

Answer 6

Religious Law status- can no longer be freed by claim to Christianity

Question 7

1676

Answer 7

Bacon’s rebellion; after taxes raise to 45lbs per person

Question 8

1682

Answer 8

Differing punishment based on race

Question 9

1691

Answer 9

Amalgamation banishment

Question 10

1705

Answer 10

Real estate law = slaves are property

Question 11

1680

Answer 11

Planters try and reach out to small farmers and freemen (25 acres=vote law)

Question 12

1686

Answer 12

Royal government makes militia democratic

Question 13

1710

Answer 13

All whites (except for indentured servants) have right to vote; 4.5lbs tobacco tax

Question 14

1640

Answer 14

Total possibility of black freedom

Question 15

1705

Answer 15

freedom never possibility for blacks

Question 16

1750

Answer 16

30% of Virginian population can vote