What role did African Americans play in Bacons Rebellion? What ...

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Question 1

Horses were reintroduced to North America by the __________.
 
  A) Spanish
  B) Dutch
  C) French
  D) English

Question 2

Why did many eastern Indians gain access to guns before their counterparts in New Spain and its adjacent regions?
 
  A) Spanish policy forbade the sale of firearms to Native Americans.
  B) From the beginning, the British deliberately set out to arm eastern Indians.
  C) Eastern Indians were more interested in firearms than their counterparts in New Spain.
  D) Eastern Indians were willing give up all of their land claims in exchange for weapons.

Question 3

What factors fueled the Stono Rebellion?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

Detail the stages experienced by an African, from sale to arriving at a plantation in America.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 5

How did Britains participation in the Atlantic slave trade evolve from 1640 to the 1730s?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 6

What role did African Americans play in Bacons Rebellion?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer 1

Answer: A

Answer 2

Answer: A

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The largest slave uprising in colonial North America broke out in 1739 near the Stono River, twenty miles southwest of Charleston. Several factors led to the rebellion.
  


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  By 1739, blacks exceeded whites nearly two to one among South Carolinas 56,000 people.
  


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  Working conditions had worsened steadily as rice production expanded.
  


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  For several decades the Spanish in Florida had been luring slaves from South Carolina.
  


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  The wide commercial rivalries of Spain and Britain led to open warfare in 1739.
  


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  An epidemic in Charleston had disrupted public activities, and a new Security Act requiring all white men to carry arms to church was to take effect before the end of September.
  

Answer 4

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The entire journey, from normal village life to enslavement beyond the ocean, could last a year or two.
  


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  It unfolded in at least five stages, beginning with capture and deportation to the African coast.
  


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  The next phase, sale and imprisonment, began when enslaved Africans reached the sea, and African traders transferred ownership of the captives to European buyers.
  


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  After inspection and branding, captives were put in irons and guarded in a secure spot until they could be transferred to a ship.
  


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  Once in the Americas, slaves were sold to plantation owners and their agents.
  


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  In the final stage, known as seasoning, newly arrived slaves made the transition to their new circumstances.
  

Answer 5

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The development of Barbados as a lucrative sugar colony and the expansion of English overseas ambitions stimulated English interest in the slave trade.
  


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  In 1672 Charles II chartered the Royal African Company (RAC).
  


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  The RAC dispatched from England a steady flow of merchant ships along a triangular trade route.
  


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  The scope of English slave trading expanded when the RACs monopoly ended officially in 1698, allowing more competition.
  


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  Britains slave trade ballooned further after 1713 when it obtained the lucrative asiento, or contract, from Spain to deliver Africans to the Spanish colonies in America.
  


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  From the 1730s on, Britain dominated the Atlantic slave trade.
  

Answer 6

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  Bacons following included a diverse set of unfree workers.
  


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  Many Africans, both slaves and indentured servants, worked on Virginias tobacco plantations.
  


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  With much to gain and little to lose, such Africans joined Bacons Rebellion.
  


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  When Bacon died, bound workers continued the fight.
  


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  The uprising was not completely put down until the arrival of military reinforcements from Britain.
  

[shofmannx20]

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[Mochi]

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