ch 3-4 quiz/test

1565 

  • Spanish settle in St. Augustine Florida

1619

  • Slaves arrive in Jamestown VA

The religious beliefs of slaves

  • They experienced religious conversions, but also adapted their African religious beliefs to the Catholic, Methodist, Anglican, Baptist, and Dutch Reformed churches.

Languages spoken by slaves

  • Often spoke multiple languages; English, Dutch, Spanish, French, and several pidgin languages.

Indentured servants

  • Primarily white people under contracts of about 7 years to pay debt. 

What was significant about Massachusetts with regard to slavery?

  • First colony to give legal sanction to slavery

What happened with slave codes in the late seventeenth-century? 

  • Enacted slave codes

Know Bacon's Rebellion

  • Virginia uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon that was started over lack of protection for settlers from Indian raids.

    • Blacks played a prominent role in the rebellion

    • Blacks and poor whites were allied.

Was there a distinction between free and enslaved black persons?

  • Yes, enslaved individuals were treated as property under the law, free Black people had some legal rights and could participate in society, but these rights were often limited and varied depending on the region.  

What were the marital restrictions in New England for black slaves in the late 1600s?

  • Were allowed to marry 

Slave population in New England

  • Around 2%

What crop was grown in Louisiana that was brought from Africa?

  • Rice 

What was Code Noir?

  • Slave codes that were based on French codes in the West Indies

 

What were the five slave societies discussed?

  • New England, Chesapeake, Middle Atlantic, Lower South, Lower Mississippi Valley

What were the two major slave systems in the South?

  • The Chesapeake, South Carolina Low Country

Slaves born in the Americas were known as _____

  • creoles

Where did the eighteenth-century smallpox epidemic break out?

  • New England

Where was rice planted in the colonies?

  • Lower Mississippi Valley and Lower South Sea Board

What differentiated slave life on the Chesapeake plantations from those living in the Lower Mississippi River Valley?

  • Chesapeake colonies had more supervision than the Lower Mississippi. 

Where were Maroon societies created?

  • St. Augustine Florida

In what colony(ies) did slaves live where they worked with very little contact with whites?

  • Lower Mississippi Valley and South Carolina Low County

What were the sumptuary laws?

  • Prevents black people from wearing fine clothing because it made them look to similar to white people

What is important about the Pennsylvania Quakers with regard to slavery?

  • Most were abolitionists