Quiz Questions for Tuesday, September 14 - Pages 65-67 and 94-111 in Who Built America plus the handouts "White Servitude" and the "Terrible Transformation, 1450-1750"

Questions based on “White Servitude”

1. In the 17th and 18th centuries, London spirits:
a) Exorcised the devil from one’s body. b) Kidnapped adults for shipment to America. c) Distilled whiskey for export to America. d) Ministered to Puritans.

2. Newlanders, recruiting agents for ships going to North America, were paid:
a) A salary. b) An hourly wage. c) By the number of passengers recruited.

3. The population of indentured servants in North America was comprised of:
a) Many more men than women. b) many more women than men. c) Roughly equal amounts of men and women.

4. What proportion of indentured servants in North America served their terms and became landowners.
a) All. b) Most. c) A few. d) None.

5. According to Hofstadter, the majority of emigrants to colonial America were:
a) Free men. b) Slaves and indentured servants.

Questions based on “The Terrible Transformation”

6. In the early 17th century, most of the Africans brought to America were given the status of:
a) Slaves. b) Indentured servants. C) Freedmen.

7. When Europeans arrived on the West African coast in the 17th century, slavery already existed on the African continent.
a) True. b) False.

8. The status of slaves was NOT passed from one generation to the next in:
a) Portugese colonies in South America. b) Spanish colonies in north America. c) English colonies in North America. d) West African Kingdoms.

9. Which of the following is NOT true about Anthony Johnson (aka Antonio the Negro), an African brought to Virginia in the early 17th century?
a) He was a lifetime slave. b) He was at one time an indentured servant. c) He owned land in Virginia. D) He owned indentured servants in Maryland.

10. In 1641, ____________became the first North American colony to legally recognize slavery.
a) Virginia. b) Maryland. c) Pennsylvania. d) Massachusetts.

11. By the late 1600s, Virginia turned to which one of the following for most of its cheap plantation labor?
a) Indians. b) African slaves. c) European and African Indentured servants.

12. From the 15th through the 19th century, who built the 60 forts along the west coast of Africa that served as trading posts and holding pens for slaves brought from the interior?
a) Europeans. b) Africans. c) Americans.

13. The slaves brought to forts and trading posts along the west coast of Africa were seized/ kidnapped in the interior by:
a) Europeans. b) Africans. c) Americans.

Questions based on “Who Built America”

14. In the 17th century, the sharpest increase in the number of slaves in the southern colonies was from:
a) 1630-1640. b) 1640-1660. c) 1660-1680. d) 1680-1700.

15. “The Chesapeake slave population became the first anywhere in the New World to sustain its numbers by natural increase.” As a result, majority of the Chesapeake slaves were American- rather than African-born beginning in the:
a) 1640s. b) 1670s. c) 1740s. d) 1770s.

16. A black majority population and mountainous terrain were more likely to shelter escaped slaves (maroons) in:
a) The Caribbean.b) Georgia. c) Maryland. d) South Carolina. e) Virginia.

17. By the 1700s, the African-American population in the southern colonies was more than_____times greater than the New England and the middle colonies combined.
a) Two. b) Three. c) Four. d) Five.

18. The Stono Rebellion was:
a) A slave rebellion in South Carolina. b) A rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon in Virginia. c) An uprising of white indentured servants in Maryland. d) An Indian uprising in Georgia.