Slavery and independence

How did cotton relate to slavery?

• The desire to grow cotton led to increased slavery
• It did not relate to slavery
• All slaves were required to grow cotton
• Cotton was traded for slaves in Africa

Many slaves worked on large farms called ______.

• plantations
• villages

Slaves were captured from _____.

• England
• Europe
• Africa
• France

Where were most slaves in the West Indies and British North Americans put to work?  

• Gold and silver mines
• household kitchens
• grain mills
• sugar and tobacco plantations

What was the main job of an overseer?

• To evaluate the price of slaves
• to supervise the work of slaves
• to teach slaves to use new tools
• to help them escape

What was the legal status of slaves in the United States?

• citizen
• property
• dependents
• immigrants

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Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?

• They feared the power of the slaveholders.
• They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
• They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.

What did Harriet Tubman’s work with the Underground Railroad involve?

• As a freed slave, she led others to take a stand against slave owners.
• As a freed slave, she bought slaves and then gave them their freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she guided slaves from the South to freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she opened a school for those who traveled to Canada.

Who resisted slavery by organizing a violent rebellion?

• Nat Turner
• Edward Covey
• Sojourner Truth
• Frederick Douglass

How did Southern states respond to slave rebellions?

• They gave slaves some freedom.
• They began to understand that slavery was wrong.
• They passed even stricter slave codes.
• They refused to take slaves back when they were captured.