The American Yawp Chapter 3 British North America

In British North America, Perpetual (generational/lifetime) negro Slavery was introduced in 1643 and expanded to cover both African slaves and their descendants, based primarily on the status of the mother, by the beginning of the 18th Century.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

"Slave law claimed that children inherited the status of their mother, a law that enabled enslavers to control the reproductive functions of their enslaved women laborers."

in 1715

While both indentured servitude and slavery continued among colonial white and American Indian populations, by the 1700’s African slavery had become the predominant form of forced labor in the central and southern colonies.

• True

• False

American Indian/Spanish relations in New Mexico were much better than relations between other European settlers and American Indians during the period 1675-1700.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

"the Spanish experienced their own tumult in the area of contemporary New Mexico...Several thousand Puebloan warriors razed the Spanish countryside and besieged Santa Fe. They killed four hundred...It was perhaps the greatest act of Indigenous resistance in North American history."

The term “Middle Passage” referred to the voyage of African slaves during their importation from Africa to the European colonies in the Americas.

• True

• False

As white/European populations expanded, and land requirements increased, longstanding alliances between whites and American Indians devolved into rivalry and open warfare.

• True

• False

According to our text, historians estimate that in the British colonies between 1670 and 1715, ______________ American Indians were captured and sold into slavery as a result of war and conflict before authorities took steps to discourage the enslavement of American Indians.

• approximately 200,000

• 175,381

• over 60,000

• between 24,000 and 51,000

One major factor attracting immigrants to British North America was:

• Implement and enforce British culture on the American Indians as well as other European settlers

• Desire for glory/excitement

• Employment in gold and silver mining

• Religious liberty/toleration

Answer explanation

Religious conflict plagued sixteenth-century England...Many radical Protestants looked to the New World as an opportunity to create a beacon of Calvinist Christianity"

Which of the following countries did NOT attempt to establish a colonial presence in North America?

• Sweden

• France

• Prussia/Germany

• Holland/The Netherlands

Which British colony in North America banned slavery during the early colonial era?

• Pennsylvania

• Massachusetts Bay

• Maryland

• All British colonies permitted slavery or indentured servitude in some form during the Colonial era.

A major multifaceted conflict that started over a pig in Virginia in 1675-1677 that encapsulated the issues of American Indian/Colonist warfare as well as the political struggle between appointed Royal authorities and local elected officials was ________________________________.

• The Yamasee War

• Susquehannock War

• Bacon’s Rebellion

• King Phillip’s War.