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1
Fewer blacks lived in ________ than in any other region in North America.
A)the South
B)New England
C)the Midwest
D)the Mississippi Valley
2
Slavery was a profitable segment of the New England economy until which of the following events?
A)the Pequot Wars
B)the War of 1812
C)the American Civil War
D)the American Revolution
3
________ was, in the eighteenth century, the only New England colony to see a significant growth of its slave population.
A)Connecticut
B)Rhode Island
C)New York
D)Massachusetts
4
Slaves in the Boston area who were tasked with dressing, bathing, shaving, feeding , and driving their masters were called
A)trustees.
B)house servants.
C)body servants.
D)overseers.
5
In the northern American colonies, the most significant evidence of cultural syncretism is the festival tradition of ________ that developed in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
A)Negro Election Day
B)Pinkster
C)Christian baptism
D)Christmas
6
Through his slave Onesimus, Cotton Mather and physician Zabdiel Boylston introduced the life-saving medical technique of ________ to America.
A)sterilization
B)chewing willow bark
C)leech-bleeding
D)inoculation
7
Which of the following was NOT a member of the Middle Colonies?
A)Rhode Island
B)New York
C)Pennsylvania
D)Delaware
8
French Calvinists, also called ________, are just one example of the many diverse groups of people entering the Middle Colonies in the eighteenth century.
A)Quakers
B)Anabaptists
C)Huguenots
D)Shakers
9
The "Guinea dance" festival celebrated by the African slaves of the Middle Colonies was called
A)Negro Election Day.
B)Pinkster.
C)Kwanza.
D)Shaka
10
Slavery expanded in the region due to both the expanding economies of the Middle Colonies and
A)the Catholic church's endorsement of slavery in 1700.
B)legislation favoring the slaves.
C)innovations in agriculture.
D)a decline in manumission.
11
By the middle of the eighteenth century, the expansion of slavery was particularly visible on the great estates of New York's ________, where wealthy farmers stitched together large slave holdings and worked to export foodstuffs to the West Indies.
A)Niagara Valley
B)Hudson Valley
C)Catskills
D)Finger Lakes
12
Of all the British colonies, only Pennsylvania had a religious constituency, called ________, whose members began to debate the morality of slavery.
A)Calvinists
B)Shakers
C)Quakers
D)Anabaptists
13
In the 1730s, ________ formed the largest black ethnic group in the Chesapeake region, representing 37 percent of all slaves identifiable by African origin.
A)Angolans
B)Igbos
C)Nigerians
D)Maroons
14
Universally, adjustment to their plight was made difficult for the saltwater slaves in the Chesapeake region due to
A)their superstitions and religious ideas.
B)their lack of work skills.
C)their lack of understanding.
D)their inability to speak English.
15
Slaves that had been born in the New World were referred to as
A)seasoned.
B)freshwater.
C)Maroons.
D)Creoles.
16
A newly arrived slave in the Chesapeake region had approximately a ________ chance of dying within the first year.
A)five-in-ten
B)two-in-four
C)one-in-four
D)one-in-ten
17
In the 1720s, Virginians attempted to increase the number of slaves in the region by
A)cornering the market.
B)importing many more female slaves for breeding.
C)seizing slave ships along the Atlantic coast.
D)forced breeding.
18
The introduction of ________ transformed slave life in the South Carolina coastal areas.
A)corn cultivation
B)tobacco cultivation
C)rice cultivation
D)cotton cultivation
19
Which of the following is NOT an irrigation technique brought to South Carolina from West Africa by slaves?
A)upland system of rain
B)inland swamps
C)channel irrigation
D)tidal irrigation
20
By the late seventeenth century, ________ of the slaves imported into the colony of South Carolina were male.
A)two-thirds
B)one-half
C)all
D)one-fourth
21
During his tour of America in 1736, the British traveler Edward Kimber condemned white parents in Virginia for which of the following?
A)allowing their children to work alongside slaves
B)allowing their children to be near slaves
C)allowing their children to pick up speech patterns from the family slaves
D)allowing their children to play with slave children of similar ages
22
The Lowcountry's ________ allowed for less supervision, since it was based on the worker's output per day; after completing a defined job, slaves were allowed to spend the rest of their time as they saw fit (within reason).
A)rice cultivation system
B)task system
C)gang system
D)overseer system
23
The Lowcountry's largest port city in the eighteenth century was
A)Parris Town.
B)Hilton Head.
C)Savannah.
D)Charleston.
24
Which of the following describes laws created to prohibit someone (usually slaves) from wearing particular fabrics or designs?
A)sumptuary
B)statutory
C)consumption
D)exclusionary
25
South Carolina was different from most of the British colonies in that it did NOT prohibit
A)interracial sexual contact.
B)consumption of alcohol.
C)misogyny.
D)manumission.
26
The South Carolina slave who bargained for his freedom by offering his proved poison antidote to the legislature was named
A)Mose.
B)Menendez.
C)Ramirez.
D)Caesar.
27
The first black-created town (1738) in North America was ________, in Florida.
A)Lakeland
B)Mose
C)St. Augustine
D)Ocala
28
James Oglethorpe, who led his troops into Florida to occupy Fort Mose, was later the governor and founder of
A)St. Augustine.
B)South Carolina.
C)Florida.
D)Georgia.
29
French settlers expelled from Nova Scotia after Britain's invasion were called
A)Acadians.
B)Creoles.
C)mulattoes.
D)Huguenots.
30
Which of the following is a vegetable dye that was used extensively to color cloth in the eighteenth century?
A)turpentine
B)pine pitch
C)indigo
D)vermillion







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