Colonial America

Which region used shipbuilding and fishing as the main source for their economy?

• New England

• Middle

What is holding people against their will and making them work without pay?

• indentured servant

• slavery

What region depended on slavery to help keep their plantation agricultural economy?

• Southern

• Middle

Laws outlining the rights of slave owners and the enslaved

• Indigenous Americans

• Indentured

• Debtors

• slave codes

All people who were enslaved came from Africa.

• True

• False

Families who were enslaved were allowed to stay together for life

• True

• False

Enslaved people who worked the fields often lived in small homes close by.

• True

• False

Families who were enslaved were allowed to stay together for life

• True

• False

Enslaved people were usually treated fairly by their masters.

• True

• False

The increase in the number of enslaved Africans arriving in America was largely due to         

•  the development of the plantation system

•  greater efforts to capture Africans by other Africans

• an increase in the number of European slave traders

• changing attitudes about the justice of owning slaves