US History - Out of Many Ch 4
The size of the slave labor force in the Chesapeake in the 1700s
Grew larger after the 1730s because of the natural increase of "country-born."
The African-American culture and community
Was based on music and dance, which provided a unity across tribal and ethnic lines.
The effect of the slave trade on Africa was&
The destabilization, depopulation, and corruption of society for short-term profits.
The sale of the enslaved at the end of the Middle Passage usually
Revealed that the enslaved were considered to be mere property.
Sugar production with African slavery
Made the sugar-producing colonies more valuable.
Slave labor contributed to the economic development of Britain in all of the following ways
EXCEPT
It brought the greatest return on investment and was called "the mainspring."
Once slavery became identified with skin color,
All white colonists themselves became roughly equal based on skin color.
For family life, African Americans did all of the following EXCEPT
Surrender all control of the children to women because men were often absent.
The slaves who worked the rice plantations
Created a culture and community of their own with a strong sense of their oppression.
South Carolina between 1670 and 1730
Engaged in an Indian slave trade using Indian tribes to capture other Indians.
The status of blacks in the Chesapeake before 1650
Was unclear because some blacks gained freedom and held slaves themselves.
The horrors of the Middle Passage included all of the following EXCEPT
The practice of punishing rebellious captives called "dancing the slaves."
The map of the slave trade shows that the largest percentage of Africans came from
West Central Africa.
The reasons the Chesapeake changed from a society with slaves to a slave society included
all of the following EXCEPT
The indentured servants had proven to be model citizens upon ending their service.
The Virginians passed a series of laws defining slavery in the late 1600s
To give slavery a legal basis because there were no English legal precedents for it.
