A Brief History of American Farm Labor

Which sentence from the article explains how farmworkers try to solve the problem of unfair treatment?

• Workers organize unions so they can bargain together as a large group.

• They would do four to seven years of hard labor. After that they would be allowed to stay in the new American colonies and were often given land.

• In other words, they traded a portion of their farm's harvest in order to use the land and equipment.

• Migrant workers travel from place to place for temporary work, such as farming in summer.

Read the section "Servants had miserable lives."

Select the sentence that BEST supports the conclusion that slaves were treated worse than indentured servants.

• By the 1600s, there weren't enough indentured servants to do all the work that was needed.

• Instead of a fixed period of living as servants, and then gaining freedom, slaves had almost no promise of freedom.

• Over the next two centuries, African slaves became the main farmworkers in the colonies.

• As the nation grew and expanded westward, so did slavery, especially in the South.

Which sentence from the section "African-Americans endured unfair treatment" would be MOST important to include in a summary of the article?

• Douglas A. Blackmon wrote the book "Slavery By Another Name."

• From the end of the Civil War through World War II, he writes, hundreds of thousands of African-Americans were forced to do new forms of work.

• General William T. Sherman ordered that freed slaves be granted 40 acres per family.

• In other words, they traded a portion of their farm's harvest in order to use the land and equipment.

Read the following detail from the section "Immigrant workers came to the U.S. from Mexico."

The group led a five-year strike of grape pickers and a national grape boycott — getting people to refuse to buy grapes. That boycott eventually helped farmworkers get higher wages.

HOW does this detail develop the central idea of the article?

• by explaining the meaning of a boycott and how it could be used

• by explaining that grapes were the crop most often picked by migrant workers

• by showing the importance of grapes to farms in the United States

• by showing that workers had to continue the demand for fair treatment