Af. Am. Studies - Ch. 3 Assessment

In the context of colonialism, the term describing the mother country from which authoritative decisions stem is a

• A) fiefdom

• B) parliament

• C) metropole

• D) progenitor

Today's New York City occupies what in 1624 was the Dutch trading port named

• A) Rockaway

• B) Plymouth

• C) New Amsterdam

• D) New Netherland

In 1676 Virginia, the young English planter named ________, along with a group of black slaves, white indentured servants, and small farmers, led an uprising against colonial officials, accusing them of failing to protect settlers from Indian raids.

• A) Marshall

• B) Bacon

• C) Keayne

• D) Hurd

The fear of alliances between blacks and whites led the colonial government in Virginia to outlaw

• A) mixed-race children

• B) interracial business partnerships

• C) interracial marriage

• D) interracial contact of all sorts

The 1680 Virginia law borrowed heavily from ________ practices in the Caribbean and served as the model for other colonies in North America.

• A) French

• B) Dutch

• C) English

• D) Spanish

The English founded the colony at ________ in 1607.

• A) Jamestown

• B) Massachusetts Bay

• C) New Amsterdam

• D) New York

When applied to slaves, what did the word "Creole" mean?

• A) a slave who was born in the Americas

• B) a slave who was born in Africa but was "seasoned" in the Caribbean

• C) an African-born slave who was transported directly from Africa to North America

• D) a slave who spoke a pidgin dialect combining European and African languages

Which of the following statements about slavery in seventeenth-century North America is LEAST accurate?

• A) Many of the slaves brought to North America had Spanish or Portuguese names

• B) Most of the slaves brought to North America arrived not from Africa but from other American colonies

• C) By the middle of the seventeenth century, the slave population of North America was able to increase by natural reproduction

• D) A number of slaves in North America were multilingual, speaking a variety of European, African, and Native American languages

In which region of North America were slaves living under Spanish rule in 1750?

• A) Louisiana

• B) Florida

• C) Carolina

• D) Georgia

In what year were Africans first imported into the English settlement of Jamestown?

• A) 1607

• B) 1619

• C) 1637

• D) 1678