Chapter 3 Test

Which of the following was true of the low country by 1740?

The Carolina low country had 40,000 slaves, who constituted 90% of the population in the region around Charleston.

Georgia was founded, in part, to serve as a buffer between South Carolina and

Spanish Florida.

Growing demand for ______ led to the expansion of the slave labor system in the Chesapeake.

tobacco

Anthony Johnson

was given freedom, married, and acquired land, livestock, and slaves of different ethnicities.

Spain

was the first European nation to actively colonize the Americas.

Before 1750, nearly all slaves were

working on fields (both men and women).

.. During the colonial period, about _______ percent of southern female slaves were field workers.

60

The preservation of ___________________ created the foundation for African-American culture.

West African extended family

. Maroon communities were made up of

escaped slaves, most durable communities in Spanish colony of Florida because they offered refuge for slaves escaping British colonies..

The voyage of John Cabot in 1497

established England's claim to the east coast of North America.

. Miscegenation resulted in a(n) mulattoes caused

physical and cultural change.

Rice cultivation encouraged the development of the ___ system in the low country.

task

Indentured servants who worked on Chesapeake tobacco plantations sold their freedom for a number of years in exchange for

voyage to North America (completed servitude and remained in America as free [if survived]).

. Tabby was used in

concrete.

Beginning in the ______ historical records in Virginia suggest a tendency to view African Americans as slaves.

1640s,

Most of the British settlers who settled in Charleston in 1670 came from

Barbados, a sugar-producing island in the West Indies rather then from England.

. Which of the following helps explain why slavery was less extensive in the northern colonies than the southern colonies?

Organized religion played a much more important role in the foundation of most of the northern colonies than it did in those of the south; religious utopianism shaped colonial life. ex) Quakers emphasized nonviolence/divine spirit within all humans making Quakers one of the early opponents of slavery.

Which of the following was stipulated by slave codes passed in the Chesapeake between 1660 and 1710?

Slave codes enacted between 1660 and 1720 further defined American slavery as an system that sought as much to control persons of African descent as to exploit their labor.

Which of the following best explains the growth in the slave population in the low country before 1750?

The first British settlers who arrived in Charleston had came from Barbados; many of them had been slaveholders already and brought their slaves with them. By the early 18th century, more Africans had arrived than white people. Carolina also became the center for Indian slave trade.

Which of the following helps explain why the 32 people of African descent who arrived in Jamestown in the early seventeenth century were not considered slaves?

They were thought to already have been there, English had no law for slavery

. What was the main reason colonial assemblies banned interracial marriages?

To keep white women from bearing mulatto children. They feared that having free white mothers might allow persons of mixed race to sue and gain their freedom, creating a legally recognized free mixed-race class. This would blur the distinction between dominated and subordinated races and weaken the white supremacy.

Which of the following turned Jamestown into a profitable enterprise?

Tobacco

. Which of the following prevented widespread conversion of slaves to Christianity before the 1730s?

Two factors had prevented widespread black conversion. First, most masters feared that converted slaves would interpret their new religious status as a step toward freedom and equality. Second, many slaves remained devoted to their ancestral religions that Christianity did not attract them.

Where did the majority of slaves in British North America live in 1750?

Virginia and Maryland

. African styles of architecture were most common in

coastal South Carolina.

. The term miscegenation refers to

interracial sexual contact.

Under chattel slavery, enslaved African Americans were the legal equivalents of

livestock.

. Most southern slaves used technologies closely associated with

raising and processing crops for distant markets.

. Before the late eighteenth century, slaves' goal in resisting was to

resist their masters as well as they could.

Low-country plantations focused on

the cultivation of rice.