Colonial People Practice quiz

SELECT ALL CORRECT OPTIONS: Which groups of people could NOT vote?

• European (white) women

• Enslaved African Americans

• Free African Americans

• Indentured servants

Which answer describes INDENTURED SERVANTS?

• They were enslaved for life

• They were free at the end of their contract

• They were allowed to vote during their servitude

• They were part of the wealthiest social class

SELECT THE THREE (3) CORRECT OPTIONS: FREE African Americans COULD...

• vote

• own land

• work for pay

• decide how to spend their own money

Which group of people was wealthy, usually educated, and lived in Southern colonies?

• Enslaved African Americans

• Large Landowners

• Artisans

• Indentured Servants

Who relied on their family members for labor, and their work depended on the natural resources where they lived?

• Farmers

• Enslaved African Americans

• Large Landowners

• Artisans

Who worked as home-makers, caretakers, and house workers?

• European (white) women

• Merchants

• Large Landowners

• Artisans

Which people worked as craftsmen, and lived in towns or on plantations?

• Artisans

• Enslaved African Americans

• Merchants

• Indentured Servants

Which people did not have money to move to the Americas, and signed a contract of servitude to work for their freedom?

• Enslaved African Americans

• European (white) women

• Indentured Servants

• Large Landowners

Which people were captured and sold into a system of forced labor, and treated as property in the colonies?

• Artisans

• Merchants

• Enslaved African Americans

• Large Landowners

Which people relied on enslaved or indentured workers for labor?

• Large Landowners

• Merchants

• Artisans

• Free African Americans