Slavery Quiz Question Preview (ID: 44399)

a) Only the New England Colonies had slaves because their climate was hard to live in.

b) Only the Middle Colonies had slaves because they had all types of people living there, and that made them hate people

c) . Only the Southern Colonies had slaves because they hated Africans the most.

d) All Colonies had slaves, but the Southern Colonies had the most and kept them the longest because of their plantations.

a) They used slaves to harvest molasses, used to make rum, which was sent to Europe and Africa

b) They used slaves to manufacture guns, which were sent to Africa

c) They grew food for the Colonies because the Colonies couldn’t grow food for everyone

d) They sold slaves to Europe to help them make finished products for Africa

a) They did and succeeded most of the time

b) They enjoyed work and wanted to help masters

c) They were afraid of harsh punishments they’d receive

d) They wanted to get paid more for working hard

a) A runaway servant was whipped or brutally beaten; a slave would have to work longer

b) A runaway servant would have to work longer; a slave was whipped or brutally beaten

c) A runaway slave would get paid less that month; a servant would be killed

d) A runaway slave would be promoted; a servant would get paid less that month

a) work slower or pretend to not understand

b) attack with weapons they had made

c) commit suicide

d) tried to get laws passed to protect their rights

a) At an auction, with people bidding on them, or in a pen at a “scramble”

b) in stores

c) they were just distributed evenly among the buyers

d) they were already paid for by someone and then delivered to them

a) Slaves were packed tightly onto dirty boats for weeks crossing the Atlantic

b) Slaves got sores, fell ill, were abused, and many died while on the ship

c) Slaves were forced to eat and recaptured if they jumped overboard

d) Slaves were given good medical treatment when they became sick

a) Herded into a pen, bid on at an auction, and taken to their master’s house.

b) Marched to the coast, head shaved, branded, crammed onto a boat, sold in the West Indies or 13 Colonies.

c) Put on a train, sailed to Europe for medical examination by the King, cataloged, then sent to America.

d) Thrown in jail with European prisoners as well, put on a ship as the crew, sailed to the Americas

a) To get revenge on Europeans

b) All were forced to under threat of death

c) To make their fellow men suffer greatly

d) Wanted guns to protect their villages from other tribes

a) tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton, rum

b) molasses

c) guns, horses, pots, rum

d) slaves

a) Europe needed workers to make guns, so they bought slaves from the 13 Colonies to work

b) Factories needed workers to make iron products, so they brought slaves in to work

c) Large plantations needed a lot of work and could make a lot of money, so slaves were brought to work the land for free.

d) West Indies needed indigo, so they bought indigo from 13 Colonies, who used slaves to grow it

a) tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton, rum

b) molasses

c) guns, horses, pots, rum

d) slaves

a) slaves were treated better than servants were

b) servants signed a contract to work for 4-7 years, slaves were forced into work with no end

c) slaves were from Europe, servants were from Africa

d) 1 in 7 servants died on the ship, 40% of slaves didn’t live more than 5 years

a) Europe sent guns to the 13 Colonies to fight their wars against the Native Americans, who made slaves out of the Colonists.

b) Colonies send cash crops/rum to Europe which sends guns, rum, other products to Africa which sends slaves to Colonies

c) Colonies send slaves to Africa which sends guns/rum to West Indieswhich sends cattle to Europe

d) Africa sent slaves to Europe to work in factories making products for the 13 Colonies, who sent different slaves to Africa.

a) imports come IN to a country; exports go OUT

b) Imports go OUT of a country; exports come IN

c) Imports are thrown away; exports are kept

d) Colonists control imports; slaves control exports

a) both treated the exact same

b) both were from Europe

c) both signed a contract to work for 4-7 years

d) did same type of work for no pay

a) They were forced to learn to read and write and went to school over 10 hours a day.

b) They had their arms and legs cut completely off if they ran away.

c) Overseers would put collars or muzzles on them and whip them with a cat o' nine tails

d) They were over-fed until they were too sick to work.

a) They didn't want them thinking for themselves or learning ways to gain rights and freedoms.

b) Education was too expensive, especially in New England, so they didn't want to pay.

c) They didn't think that education was valuable at all, that's why they only sent girls to school.

d) No one in the Colonies was educated, so why would slaves be?

a) Africa was a poor, uncultured area with no real society or religions. So, they needed improving, but resisted.

b) The Africans had waged many wars in both Europe and the Colonies, so this treatment was misplaced revenge on these people.

c) Those two groups hated all people and just wanted to make them suffer at any cost.

d) Africans weren't Christians, so that made them savages. Also, they made up that blacks were biologically worse than whites.

a) Europeans don't tell the full truth about the slave trade because it would make them look like monsters.

b) Hardly any slaves could write, so it's just interesting to see what they put together.

c) Europeans give us the full history of slavery because there was no shame in any of it. Slave accounts say the same things.

d) Slavery was not well-documented, so we don't really have a lot of information. We need anything no matter who wrote it.