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This Test Will Be Covering Colonial Slavery And The Southern Colonies In South Carolina History. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

What was the economy in South Carolina based on?
a) Mining of gold and other precious metals
b) Harvesting cash crops
c) Harvesting cereal crops
d) Cutting down timber and other wood projects

What group of people were originally used to harvest cash crops in South Carolina?
a) Native American Slaves
b) African Slaves
c) Indentured Servants
d) Paid Laborers

Slaves were used to harvest cash crops, but they were also used to exploit the following resources as well:
a) Naval Stores like tar, pitch and rosin
b) Mining precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum
c) Manufactured goods like glass, tin, and furniture
d) Fossil Fuels like coal, natural gas, and oil

What was the name of the people who are descended from slaves that lived on islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia?
a) Redbones
b) Gullah/Geechee
c) Hoitoiders
d) Cajuns

What was the name of the dangerous section of the Atlantic Ocean that slaves had to cross in order to be brought to the New World?
a) The Atlantic Passage
b) The Northern Passage
c) The Slave Passage
d) The Middle Passage

West Africans brought all of the following skills and knowledge with them to SC EXCEPT:
a) Knowledge of the land and its resources
b) Skill with cultivating rice and other cash crops
c) Skill with tending to cattle
d) Knowledge of sailing and sea-based trading.

Which of the following was NOT a Southern Colony?
a) Carolina
b) Virginia
c) Georgia
d) Pennsylvania

Slavery in SC was so profitable that it led to all of the following developments EXCEPT:
a) Higher rates of European immigration to SC
b) Thriving trade between SC, Barbados, and Great Britain
c) The development of the plantation system of agriculture
d) Thriving slave trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

The largest Slave Revolt in the history of Colonial America happened in SC. What was it called?
a) The South Carolina Uprising
b) The Stono Revolt
c) The Stono Rebellion
d) The Kongo Plot

The Stono Rebellion led to the passage of the Slave Code of 1740. This restricted the freedom of slave in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
a) Slaves could no longer be taught to read or write
b) Slaves had to be under supervision when they gathered together
c) Slaves would receive harsher penalties for disobedience
d) Slaves were not allowed to sing or take part in their culture anymore

All of the following are aspects of African culture brought with slaves to America EXCEPT:
a) Dancing
b) Music
c) Woodcutting
d) Stone Masonry

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