1.4 Quiz

1.

1 point

What is the term for a crop that is grown for profit rather than for use by the grower?

Cash crop

Farm crop

Field crop

Subsistence crop

2.

1 point

Spain was at war with England during the early 1700s and tried to disrupt the colonies. What was one way the Spanish tried to disrupt the English colonies, specifically South Carolina?

The Spanish would no longer trade and send supplies to Charles Town.

The Spanish promised freedom to any slaves who ran away to Florida.

The Spanish put a blockade on the port of Charles Town and would not allow any slaves to enter the city.

The Spanish attacked Charles Town.

3.

1 point

What are two reasons Native Americans did not work out as slaves for the Carolina colony?

They could escape easily and did not know how to farm.

They could escape easily and died from being overworked.

They died from being overworked and could not communicate with their owners.

They did not know how to farm and died from diseases.

4.

1 point

Why were drums outlawed after the Stono Rebellion?

Drums were used as weapons against the plantation owners.

Drums were used to keep the beat in the fields as slaves worked.

Drums were used as a form of entertainment on the slaves day off.

Drums were used to communicate with slaves on other plantations.

5.

1 point

Choose the best answer as to why Gullah was only a spoken language and not written?

Slaves did not have the materials to write out the language.

It was illegal for slaves to learn how to read and write.

It was a coded language and they did not want their owners to find out the meaning of certain words.

Slaves had no time to learn how to read and write.

6.

1 point

African slaves were some of the first cowboys in North America, meaning they knew how to heard cows. What is another term for cows?

Naval stores

Felines

Canines

Cattle

7.

1 point

What was one way African slaves tried to remain upbeat and positive while working in the fields? Choose the best answer.

By working at a quick pace in order to have more free time at the end of the day.

By breaking the owner's tools.

By making and eating food that would keep them energized for the entire day.

By singing call and response songs.

8.

1 point

What was the name of the failed slave revolt that happened near Charles Town?

Gullah Rebellion

Edisto Rebellion

Stono Rebellion

Charles Town Rebellion

9.

1 point

What is the term that means to work or prepare the land to grow crops?

Social

Cultivate

Economy

Political

10.

1 point

What two cash crops made Carolina plantation owners extremely wealthy and caused more slaves to be imported?

Sugar cane and indigo

Rice and indigo

Rice and sugar cane

Cotton and sugar cane

11.

1 point

What is the term that means to deal with money?

Social

Political

Cultivate

Economy

12.

1 point

Use the map to answer the following.

What was the name of the trip slaves took from West Africa to the New World?

Slave Passage

Atlantic Passage

Middle Passage

Triangle Trade Passage

13.

1 point

What did African slaves make in order to help with the harvesting and production of rice?

Shovels

Plow

Horse drawn cart

Sweet grass baskets

14.

1 point

Use the map to answer the following question.

What would be an appropriate title for this map?

European- African Trade Map

Atlantic Trade Map

New World Trade Map

Triangle Trade Map

15.

1 point

What port city in South Carolina did thousands of African slaves pass through and then were sold on auction blocks to the highest bidder?

Beaufort

Hilton Head

Georgetown

Charles Town

16.

1 point

What were the new laws created after the Stono Rebellion that provided tighter control over the slaves?

Slave Codes

Charles Town Codes

Stono Codes

Gullah Codes

17.

1 point

According to the Slave Codes, plantation owners could be fined if they were too cruel to their slaves?

True

False

18.

1 point

What was the name of the secret passage that some slaves used to escape to Northern cities?

The Gullah Trail

The African Escape Trail

The Stono Trail

The Underground Railroad

19.

1 point

Choose the term that means to free a person.

Manumit

Desert

Exile

Cultivate

20.

1 point

Africans came to the Carolina colony with certain knowledge. One of the items they had knowledge was using products such as tar, rosin, pitch and turpentine made from the sticky sap of pine trees to make boats watertight. What is the term for this process?

Cattle herding

Rice cultivation

Pine stores

Naval stores

21.

1 point

What was an only spoken language that African slaves developed along the Sea Islands of South Carolina?

Angolan

Golan

Gullah

Caribbean

22.

1 point

Other than running away, how were most slaves set free?

Slaves were sent back to Africa after a time period of hard work.

An owner could free their slaves in their will upon the owner's death.

Slaves could not be set free.

Slaves had massive revolts.

23.

1 point

From what area of the world did the first African slaves come from to the Carolina colony?

England

Barbados

Africa

Florida

24.

1 point

Why did South Carolina have very few freed African slaves?

Freed slaves had to leave SC within 6 months or risk being re-enslaved.

African slaves were unable to purchase their freedom in SC.

SC owners were not allowed to free their slaves.

Freed African slaves often went back to West Africa.