Question 1
Despite their rarity, slaveholders had a deep fear of slave __________.
A) strikes
B) marriages
C) escapes
D) uprisings
Question 2
In 1712, enslaved Africans and Indians in __________ attacked whites and set fire to a building.
A) New York City
B) Williamsburg
C) Boston
D) Charleston
Question 3
Slavery in South Carolina was closely patterned after slavery in __________.
A) Barbados and the Caribbean
B) Virginia and the Chesapeake
C) New Spain
D) Brazil
Question 4
Which of the following helps explain South Carolinas slave concentration?
A) its proximity to Africa
B) its climate
C) the determination of the colonys founders to grow rice
D) its tax laws
Question 5
Arriving African slaves in late seventeenth-century South Carolina __________.
A) understood the climate better than their European owners did
B) had a life expectancy of less than two years
C) could expect to be free within five years
D) were put to work growing cotton
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