5th Grade Social Studies Unit 1 Week 6 Comprehension

Which class of people grew wealthy from the labor of other people?

• Upper Class

• Middle Class

• Lower Class

• Indentured Servants/Slaves

Indentured servants were mostly poor ____________.

• Europeans

• Africans

• Indigenous people

• Women

Why might a ship captain not care if a crew member died on the trip back to Europe?

• Because they might not have enough food for the trip back to Europe.

• Because there were plenty more people in Europe who wanted to work on slave ships.

• Because if a crew member died on the trip back to Europe the captain would not have to pay them.

• Because captains wanted there to be room for everyone on the ship.

Who was coming into conflict with indigenous people on the western frontier?

• Upper Class people

• Middle Class people

• Poor People

• Indentured servants/enslaved people

Why were Europeans trying to move into the western frontier?

• Because all of the land around Jamestown had been given to rich people and they needed land to farm.

• Because they didn't like living close to Jamestown.

• Because they wanted to fight with indigenous people.

• Because they were rich and they wanted more land.

Who formed an alliance in Bacon's rebellion?

• Indentured servants and slaves

• Rich people and indigenous people

• Slaves and indigenous people

• Indentured servants and indigenous people

Who was governor when the rebel militia burned Jamestown during Bacon's Rebellion?

• Nathaniel Bacon

• Howard Zinn

• William Berkley

• William Drummond

What words begin to be used to describe people in legal documents after Bacon's Rebellion?

• Enslaved/indentured

• Black/white

• African/European

• Upper class/lower class

What scared rich people most about Bacon's Rebellion?

• That the rebels had angered the indigenous people

• That the rebels burned Jamestown

• That the rebels were an alliance between European indentured servants and African slaves

• That so many of their slaves and servants had been killed

What really changed for African people after Bacon's Rebellion?

• They could be enslaved

• Slavery became hereditary and African slaves had little hope of ever having freedom

• They could be punished more harshly

• They received better treatment from their masters