Slavery in Colonial America

True or False: Slavery began with indentured servants.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Why did indentured servants eventual become slaves?

• They tried to escape.

• More help was needed on the plantations.

• Indentured servants were too expensive.

• All of the above.

What types of jobs did the slaves have?

• Transporting goods to other colonies

• Woking in the fields

• House servant

• All of the above.

Why did people become indentured servants?

• To pay off debts

• To have their voyage to America paid for

• To serve time for their crimes

• All of the above

Which American colony did the first slaves arrive in?

• Georgia

• Virginia

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

What were the laws called that first gave legal rights to slave owners?

• Slave Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Master Codes

• Plantation Codes

How long would one set of slave clothes be expected to last?

• 6 months

• 5 years

• A lifetime

• 1 year

TRUE OR FALSE: Slave children were often separated from their families as soon as they could work.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE OR FALSE: By the middle of the 1700's about 75% of the population in the southern colonies were slaves.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Slavery in the southern colonies continued until...

• 1840

• after the Civil War

• all of the slaves escaped

• All of the above