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