AAH Chapter 2

Officials from the Company of the West Indies in Louisiana capitalized on the slaves' expertise by forcing them to grow what cash crop?

Rice

New Jersey encouraged the importation of slaves to the colony and the cultivation of farm land when it

offered sixty acres per slave to colonists who imported slaves.

What was Louisiana's economy initially based on in the seventeenth century?

A fur trade with the region's Indian nations

What was the system of chattel slavery created by English colonists in North America?

African slaves were considered the property of their owners, similar to livestock or furniture.

What were the consequences of laws passed in Virginia in 1691 outlawing interracial marriage?

All marriages between blacks and whites became a crime.

What was the practice of half-freedom in Dutch-controlled New Netherlands during the seventeenth century?

Blacks who defended the colony would be freed, but their children were not liberated.

Who made up most of the Chesapeake's free black population?

Descendants of slaves who secured their freedom during the colony's early years

What did the Code Noir, or "Black Code," in French colonies permit slave owners to do to their slaves?

Kill slaves who ran away three times

What sentence was imposed on the African American indentured servant John Punch in 1640 after he was captured in Maryland fleeing from a Virginia planter?

Servitude to the planter for the rest of his life

What kind of labor system was used in rice growing regions, where a driver was chosen to oversee the work of other slaves?

Task system

Why did slave deaths routinely outnumber births in the Carolinas throughout much of the eighteenth century?

The brutal labor regime worked slaves literally to death.

What did a law passed in Virginia in 1662 change about the legal status of slaves?

The enslaved status of black women became inheritable.

What impact did objections to slavery by some Quakers have on the institution of slavery in Pennsylvania?

The petitions did not stop Quaker merchants from continuing to own slaves.

Why did the population of blacks in Virginia increase from approximately 7 percent in 1680 to 44 percent by 1750?

Virginia built a plantation economy that revolved around black slavery.

What company held a royal monopoly over Dutch trade in the Americas and led the colonization of New Netherland?

West India Company

What was an impact on slaves of laws passed during the seventeenth century that were designed to clarify slaves' legal status in English colonial society?

Women could not seek liberty for their children by claiming freemen as the fathers.

Spanish Florida was often a destination for runaway slaves from Carolina because slaves

and free blacks had a higher degree of autonomy in Florida than in other colonies.

South Carolina passed the 1740 Negro Act giving all whites the power to kill any slave who resisted interrogation or punishment because

slave owners hoped it would prevent future slave rebellions.

Rice was cultivated successfully in South Carolina despite the colonists' lack of knowledge of how to grow it because slaves

used the same equipment and techniques they used to cultivate it in Africa.

The rebels who participated in the Stono rebellion in South Carolina

were executed without trial.