The Growth of Slavery

Question 1

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

Question 2

How did the slave codes affect enslaved people?

Question 3

By the 1700s, slavery in the American colonies was

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: concentrated mostly in the southern colonies.

Question 4

What type of work did most enslaved people in Maryland and the southern colonies perform?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: labor in fields and on plantations

Question 5

Slave codes were laws that

Question 6

During the 1700s, enslaved people who tried to escape slavery

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: fled to where slavery was outlawed.

Question 7

Why was the petition written by Pennsylvania German Quakers in 1688 significant?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: It was the first public statement to protest slavery in America.

Question 8

Typically, southern colonial plantation owners

Question 9

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

Question 10

When their periods of service ended, indentured servants

Revolt · Accepted Answer

D: caused a need for more laborers on plantations.

The Growth of Slavery Answers