Africans in the Colonies

The English colonists first tried to enslave ______________________, it did not work because they would escape 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

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

• Barbados

• Bermuda

• Bahamas

• Ireland

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

African slaves were valuable for their labor and their knowledge of ____________.

• how to grow rice

• how to grow corn

• the English language

• sailing routes

All the enslaved Africans spoke the same language.

• true

• false

The work done on the plantation benefited the _________.

• slave

• plantation owner

• everyone equally

• no one

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

• Gullah

• African

• slavery

• combo

The slaves were brought to which port city?

• James Town

• Charles Town

• North Carolina

• Georgia