Life on the Plantation & the Apprenticeship System

What does the word rebellion mean?

• a. When some people in a country fight against a government.

• b. Doing what someone tells you.

• c. The customs, ideas and way of life of a group of people or a country.

• d. A sale where things are sold to the person that will pay the most money.

Who most likely worked in the cane fields?

• a. Men

• b. Women

• c. Children

The lives of plantation slaves were

• a. hard

• b. bearable

• c. easy

• d. a choice

Which of the following is NOT true about the Apprenticeship system?

• a. Slaves should work only five days per week.

• b. They were not to be paid for working extra hours.

• c. The Apprenticeship system started on August 1, 1834.

• d. The system lasted up to 6 years.

Which of the following jobs was NOT done by a field slave.

• a. Ploughing a field to plant sugarcane.

• b. Boiling cane juice in the sugar factory.

• c. Washing clothes at the Great House.

• d. Reaping sugarcane.

Some of the enslaved Africans were skilled workers.

• a. True

• b. False

All of the following statements are true about slaves EXCEPT.

• a. All children born into slavery were free.

• b. Slave children could not read and write.

• c. Some planters allowed slaves to grow small crops to feed their families.

• d. Slaves were divided into two groups: field slaves and house slaves.

The enslaved Africans wanted freedom because of all of the following EXCEPT

• a. Good treatment from their masters.

• b. Lack of educational opportunities.

• c. Separation of family.

• d. Lack of justice.

The slaves that ran away to the mountains were called

• a. Refugees

• b. Maroons

• c. Indentured slaves

• d. Amerindians

The planters were not happy with the Apprenticeship system because they would have to treat the African slaves better.

• a. True

• b. False