Slavery in Colonial America

Question 1

In colonial America, enslaved workers who received manumission

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were freed by slaveholders.

Question 2

A main result of Bacon’s Rebellion was that

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indentured servitude ended and slavery developed.

Question 3

During the colonial era in America, slave codes

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gave whites more power over enslaved people.

Question 4

In colonial times, free African Americans mainly lived

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in cities.

Question 5

How were the lives of free African Americans similar to those of enslaved African Americans in the 1700s?

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Neither group had true equality with whites.

Question 6

Slave codes affected enslaved people by

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keeping them powerless.

Question 7

A reason why slavery developed in the American colonies was

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southern plantation owners wanted more labor at lower costs.

Question 8

When their period of service ended, indentured servants

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were given Freedom Dues.

Question 9

The laws that established an official system of slavery in the American colonies

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made it legal to keep enslaved people for their entire lives.

Question 10

Slavery in the American colonies was

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concentrated mostly in the southern colonies.

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