The Economic Impact of Slavery

Question 1

Which of the following is the best comparison of slavery in the middle colonies and the southern colonies in the 1600s?

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Enslaved people tended to work on large farms in both the middle and southern colonies.

Question 2

While slave codes were in effect,

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enslaved people’s activities were restricted.

Question 3

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 white people.

Question 4

Laws were established to create an official system of slavery in the American colonies beginning in the

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mid-1600s.

Question 5

What was one problem unique to free African Americans in the 1700s?

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They could be kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Question 6

Slave codes were laws that

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defined the status of enslaved persons and the rights of enslavers.

Question 7

Where did the majority of free African Americans live in the 1700s?

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in large cities

Question 8

How did the slave codes affect enslaved people?

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The slave codes kept enslaved people frightened and powerless.

Question 9

Typically, southern colonial plantation owners

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feared revolts as the number of enslaved persons grew.

Question 10

In colonial America, enslaved workers who received manumission

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were freed by enslavers.

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