HIST 106-005 Chapter 1-6 Review Test
Prince Hall is best known for his connection to __________.
Freemasonry
Who organized a slave uprising near Richmond', Virginia in 1800?
Gabriel
Toussaint Leoutve led the struggle for _____________ independence
Haitian
Portugal and __________ dominated the Atlantic slave trade during the sixteenth century.
Spain
__________ was the first European nation to actively colonize the Americas.
Spain
As a consequence of the 1763 peace treaties that ended the French and Indian's war,
Spain took control of French Louisiana
Georgia was founded, in part, to serve as a buffer between South Carolina and __________.
Spanish Florida
Which of the following was true of the low country by 1740?
Black slaves made up 90 percent of the population in vicinity of Charleston.
Why did death rates aboard slavers drop after 1750?
By then, ships' surgeons knew more about hygiene and diet.
Nathanial Bacon was a(n) __________.
English aristocrat who had recently migrated to Virginia
The growth of the Atlantic slave trade was driven by demand for the products of the Americas in __________.
Europe
How did Thomas Jefferson respond to the poetry of Phillis Wheatley?
He was dismissive of it
Which of the following is true of Olaudah Equiano?
Scholars respect the accuracy of his account of the Middle Passage.
Crispus Attucks was killed __________.
during the Boston Massacre
Benjamin Lay was a(n)
early opponent of slavery
Wheatly believed that black people should
embrace Christianity
The sickle-cell bond trait protected African- American slaves from
malaria
At the outset of the Revolutionary War, George Washington __________.
opposed the enlistment of black troops
The Sons of Liberty took a leading role in __________.
opposition to the Tea Act
Which of the following was true of early anti-slavery societies?
they generally called for gradual, compensated emancipation
Growing demand for _________ had to the expansion of the slave labor system in the Chesapeake
tobacco
Indentured servants who worked on Chesapeake tobacco plantations sold their freedom for a number of years in exchange for __________.
transportation to North America
Why did masters sometimes find it difficult to exert control over urban slaves?
urban slaves had opportunity to earn money for themselves
At the end of the war, about __________ black people left with the British as they withdrew from South Carolina and Georgia.
20,000
As a result of the War for Independence, roughly __________ percent of the slave population of South Carolina escaped.
30
Between 1790 & 1860, the slave population in the region between.. Texas increased by almost ____________ percent
600
Plantation slavery in Florida is closely associated with the arrival of the __________.
British
Many captive Africans believed that the Europeans they encountered on the West African coast were __________.
Cannibals
Which of the following was the most important reason that the British abolished the Atlantic slave trade in 1807?
The British economy became less dependent on agriculture by the late 1700s.
The crews of __________ slavers generally preferred to sell their slaves in Barbados.
English
How did a planter decide if a slave had been "seasoned"?
The slave seemed psychologically stable and not suicidal.
Which of the following was true of early anti-slavery societies in the Upper South?
They were generally small and short lived
The declaration of independence
accused the Britsh of fomenting slave uprisings
Which of the following crops did southerners produce primarily...
corn
What crop did most agricultural slaves tend?
cotton
which of the following was true of cotton cultivation?
cotton was the nations most important crop
Brier Rabbit represented
enslaved African Americans
Maroon communities were made up of __________.
escaped slaves
During the American Revolution, African Americans ____________________
fought on both sides
The articles of Confederation ___________________________________
gave the states considerable automy
which of the following least explains the westward spread of cotton cultivated between 1830 & 1860?
general demand for cotton in Britain and New England
Miscegenation resulted in a(n) __________.
mixed-race population
White Southerners responded to events in Haiti by _____________________________________
placing greater restrictions on black people
Slaves' diets in the period between 1820 and 1860 were __________.
poor by todays standards
The U.S. Constitution _____________________________
presented congress from abolishing the slave trade until 1808
which of the following was stipulated by slave codes passed in Chesapeake between 1660 and 1710
slaves couldn't marry
Which of the fallowing had the highest infant mortality.. 19th century?
southern black people
The French Revolution ____________________________________
strengthened proslavery sentiment in the United States
Rice cultivation encouraged the development of the __________ system in the low country.
task
The first draft of the declaration of independence denounced
the Atlantic slave trade
The American Anti-Slavery movement began with
the Quakers
Which of the fallowing helped strengthen the institution of slavery?
the US Constitution
The preservation of __________ created the foundation for African-American culture.
the West African extended family
Which of the following helps explain why slavery was weak in the North in the late 18th century?
there was a steady supply of cheap white labor
How did most Americans become familiar with the ideas of John Locke?
thriving pamphlets written by british leaders
What was the main reason colonial assemblies banned interracial marriages?
to keep white women from having mixed-race children
What was the objective of the Proclamation Line of 1763?
to limit colonial settlement in the West
What was the motive behind the establishment of Jamestown?
to make a profit
aside from financial reasons, why did some black people become slaveholders?
to protect their families from sale
Which of the following turned Jamestown into a profitable enterprise?
tobacco cultivation
Anthony Johnson
was a black man who became a planter and slave owner
Slave Marriges
were sometimes arranged by masters
In Fredrick Douglas view, masters ____________________________
whipped their slaves for almost any reason
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?
The English did not have a law establishing slavery.
In the early 1400s, the __________ began to explore the coastline of Africa.
Portuguese
During the colonial period, about _______ percent of southern female slaves were field workers.
90
Historian Stanley M. Elkins...
concentration camp prisoners
Which of the following was a major component of the trans-Saharan trade?
slaves
Overall, roughly __________ of enslaved Africans died during the Middle Passage or during "seasoning" on a Caribbean island.
1/3
the sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally...
14
During the voyage to the Americas, enslaved Africans were fed __________.
African foods
The indigenous peoples of North America migrated to the Americas from __________.
Asia
Which of the following cemented the connection between slavery and race in British North America?
Bacon's Rebellion
Which of the following was true of the slave population .... in southern cities?
Baltimore and new Orleans had large slave populations
Which of the following best characterizes the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 1400s?
Columbus made navigation mistakes that led to his accidental landfall in the Americas.
Which of the following events was a major turning point in the West African slave trade with Europeans?
Columbus's voyages
In _______________ all children born to enslaved mothers after March 1, 1784, became free at age 25
Connecticut
______________________________________ helped facilitate the expansion of cotton cultivation
Indian removal under Andrew Jackson
John locke applied the ideas of _____________ to politics
Isaac newton
How did freedom suits in the early eighteenth century differ from freedom suits in the late eighteenth century?
Late eighteenth-century suits increasingly focused on principles of universal liberty.
In November 1775 __________ offered to free slaves who joined his army.
Lord Dunmore
what led George Washington to reconsider no strand on black enlistment
Lord Dunmore proclamation
Elizabeth Freemen is best known for challenging the legality of slavery in
Massachusetts's
Under the terms of the Missouri compromise ________, entered the union as a slave state
Missouri
Which of the following was true of most slaveholders in the Chesapeake in the eighteenth century?
Most slaveholders owned five or fewer slaves.
Who was the most important black advocate of migration to Africa in the early 19th century?
Paul Cuffe
Which of the following was true of slave life in the colonial period?
Rice was a key part of the diet of low country slaves.
Who was the first known Portuguese merchant to have formally traded for slaves with the Africans?
Ruy do Siqueira
Which of the following was true of the sale of slaves in the Americas?
Sales often took weeks or even months.
Which of the following was directly linked to the decision to hold a constitutional convention in 1787
Shays Rebellion
Why did the African kingdoms of Guinea and western Central Africa fight fiercely to continue participation in the slave trade?
The kingdoms were economically dependent on the slave trade.
Which of the following statements best describes the triangular trade system produced by the Atlantic slave trade?
The middle part of the trade included traders carrying African slaves to the West Indies and exchanging slaves for sugar.
Which of the following factors encouraged the formation of African-American community institutions?
The value African Americans placed on their African heritage
What limitation did black people encounter after the Revolution?
They faced economic difficulties and barriers to training and skilled job entry.
Why did slave traders seek to separate enslaved Africans who spoke the same language?
To lessen the possibility of shipboard conspiracies
How long did a typical crossing from Africa to the Americas take?
Two to three months
Which institution argued in the 1900 that slavery was generally beginning institution
Ulrich B. Phillips
The Islamic slave trade in West Africa dealt mostly in __________.
Women and children
The "scramble" was __________.
a particularly horrible form of selling slaves
Which of the following was the most likely to be freed by a slaveholder in the Deep South
an elderly slave who couldn't work
At what age did slave children begin to perform adult fieldwork?
between 8 & 12
The first black schools were funded by _______________________________
black mutual societies and churches
John Adams believed that __________.
black people were not entitled to the same rights as white people
Solomon Northrup was
born free in New York
James Forten rose to prominence as a ______________
businessman
A group of slaves were chained together for transport or sale was known as ____________________
coffle
Most slave uprisings aboard slavers took place __________.
just as the ship was getting ready to leave the African coast
As a group, African Americans suffered from __________________
lactose intolerance
Under chattel slavery, enslaved African Americans were the legal equivalents of __________.
livestock
The committee of slaves from Boston who petitioned the Massachusetts General Court in April 1773 __________.
made arguments based on natural rights
How was work divided in seasoning?
masters generally divided them into groups
Benjamin Banneker's abilities as a
mathematician
The stamp act the sugar act and townstand act were all designed to
raise revenue
Jupiter Hammon's poetry focused on _______ themes.
religious
Eli Whitney cotton gin made it easier to ____________________________________________
remove seeds from cotton balls
The Atlantic slave trade __________.
required enormous amounts of capital from those involved
Consider that data shown in Figure 4-1. What factors explain why the free black population increased dramatically after the American Revolution?
revolutionary ideology and a changing economy
Low-country plantations focused on the cultivation of __________.
rice
The decline of slavery in Chesapeake contributed to __________
the expansion of the slave trade
What was the significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1878 for African Americans?
the ordinance ser a legal and geographical precedent for limiting where slavery could and could not exist
which of the following helps... after 1830?
the rising economic value of slaves
What massage did slaves hear in plantation churches?
the slaves were to obey their masters
Which of the following was a result of the three fifth clause in the constitution?
the south's political power in the house of representatives
Why did Richard allen and others end their association with St. George's church?
the white congregation discriminated against them
What made the uprisings led by Gabriel and Deslondes different from early slave rebellions?
their goal was to destroy slavery