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Black America 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did Virginia’s colonial government respond to Bacon’s Rebellion? | They enacted laws allowing slave owners to kill rebellious slaves with impunity. |
| What did the asiento system change about the slave trade at the end of the sixteenth century? | It allowed Portuguese merchants to ship enslaved Africans directly from Africa to New Spain. |
| How did black loyalists help Britain in its southern strategy to crush the rebellion? | They aided in the capture of Savannah and Charleston. |
| Why did the number of Englishmen coming to Virginia decline by the middle part of the seventeenth century? | The colony’s reputation for abusing and exploiting servants made it unappealing. |
| What system did Spain use in the first few decades of the sixteenth century to extract forced labor and tribute from American Indians? | Encomienda |
| From where did the obas of medieval Benin derive their authority? | Common lineage of the kingdom’s founders |
| How did black northerners help the patriot cause during the Revolution? | Fugitive slaves fought alongside patriot forces. |
| Why were the earliest slaves sent to the New World shipped from Lisbon, Portugal, rather than directly from West Africa? | The Treaty of Tordesillas gave Portugal control over trade in Africa and Asia. |
| How were the Mossi states able to retain their independence from neighboring states until the nineteenth century? | Their leaders allied to defend their region from attacks by Mali and Songhay. |
| What evidence suggests there was controversy among Quakers over the use of slave labor? | Germantown Quakers wrote the first American antislavery petition in 1688. |
| What did the Massachusetts Supreme Court rule in the Quock Walker case of 1783? | Slavery was incompatible with the state’s new constitution. |
| Rice was cultivated successfully in South Carolina despite the colonists’ lack of knowledge of how to grow it because slaves | used the same equipment and techniques they used to cultivate it in Africa. |
| The community of freed slaves in the town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose helped the colonial government in Spanish Florida by | warning the residents of St. Augustine of any foreign attack. |
| England’s King James developed policies that favored his controlling interest in the Royal African Company when he | imposed tariffs on domestic slave imports. |
| Why did Africans have some immunity to the diseases of Europeans? | Africans and Europeans lived in the same hemisphere and were thus exposed to many of the same diseases. |
| In what new occupational sectors did the New England colonies start to use slave labor in the mid-eighteenth century? | Urban artisans |
| What kind of labor system was used in rice-growing regions, where a driver was chosen to oversee the work of other slaves? | Task system |
| What triggered nearly 100,000 southern slaves to escape and cross the British lines during the American Revolution? | Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation |
| How did slaves who came from different parts of Africa communicate with one another once on plantations in America? | They created Americanized, or creole, forms of communication. |
| About half of the planters who established the colony of Carolina in 1663 came from what other English colony? | Barbados |
| Great Britain founded the colony of Georgia in 1732 as a | buffer zone between Carolina and Spanish Florida. |
| What factor limited the expansion of slavery within West Africa? | The lack of commerce in slave-produced goods |
| By the sixteenth century, most West Africans practiced one of a variety of indigenous religions that involved primarily | the recognition of many deities and spirits as well as an all-powerful creator. |
| Which of these is a defining feature of stateless societies in West Africa? | The absence of a central government or coordinating authority between villages |
| How did female slaves aid insurrections on slave ships? | They passed messages and weapons to male slaves. |
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