Africans in the Colonies

The English colonists first tried to enslave ______ and this created tensions with neighboring tribes.

• Native Americans

• Spanish sailors

• Africans

• Northern colonists

Ships sailed directly from Africa to the colonies with slaves on board.

• True

• False

The plantation system relied heavily on the use of

• Slave labor

• Big houses

• Indentured Servants

• Farm machinery

Slaves came to the colonies because they wanted to work for plantation owners.

• True

• False

All the enslaved Africans spoke the same language.

• True

• False

Many of the Englishmen who settled in Charles Town came from the British settlement in

• 1. Barbados

• 1. Bermuda

• 1. Bahamas

• 1. Ireland

African slaves were valuable for their labor and their knowledge of

• 2. How to grow corn

• 1. How to grow rice

• 1. The English language

• 1. Sailing routes

 The slaves were brought to which port city?

• Jamestown

• Charles Town

• Georgia

• North Carolina

The work done on the plantation benefitted the

• 1. Slave

• 1. Plantation owner

• 1. Everyone equally

• 1. No one

 The blending of different African traditions led to the __________ culture which still exists today.

• 2. African

• 1. Slavery

• 1. Combo

• 1. Gullah