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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 |
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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 |
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________ 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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Which of the following was NOT a member of the Middle Colonies? |
| | A) | Rhode Island |
| | B) | New York |
| | C) | Pennsylvania |
| | D) | Delaware |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Slaves that had been born in the New World were referred to as |
| | A) | seasoned. |
| | B) | freshwater. |
| | C) | Maroons. |
| | D) | Creoles. |
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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 |
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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. |
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The introduction of ________ transformed slave life in the South Carolina coastal areas. |
| | A) | corn cultivation |
| | B) | tobacco cultivation |
| | C) | rice cultivation |
| | D) | cotton cultivation |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Lowcountry's largest port city in the eighteenth century was |
| | A) | Parris Town. |
| | B) | Hilton Head. |
| | C) | Savannah. |
| | D) | Charleston. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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The first black-created town (1738) in North America was ________, in Florida. |
| | A) | Lakeland |
| | B) | Mose |
| | C) | St. Augustine |
| | D) | Ocala |
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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. |
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French settlers expelled from Nova Scotia after Britain's invasion were called |
| | A) | Acadians. |
| | B) | Creoles. |
| | C) | mulattoes. |
| | D) | Huguenots. |
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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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