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WorksheetsHaitian Revolution
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The Haitian Revolution took place between ______?
a)
1791-1804
b)
1776-1781
c)
1789-1804
d)
1804-1808
2.
What country did Haiti gain its independence from ___?
a)
France
b)
England
c)
Spain
d)
The United States
3.
When did the Spaniards begin sugar production on Hispaniola?
a)
1492
b)
1500
c)
1516
d)
1522
4.
When did the Spanish cede the island to the French?
a)
1587
b)
1599
c)
1660
d)
1697
5.
What did the French call Haiti?
a)
Saint Domingue
b)
Santo Domingo
c)
Hispaniola
d)
New Spain
6.
Sugar plantations were introduced to Haiti in 1700, this _____ the demand for slaves?
a)
Increased
b)
Decreased
c)
Demand was unchanged
d)
All of the above
7.
The Code Noir established rules for regulating slavery. These laws resulted in…
a)
Food rations for slaves
b)
Limits on physical punishment
c)
Jail time for mistreating slaves
d)
Slaves being worked to death
8.
What was the average life span of a slave in Haiti?
a)
5 years
b)
7 years
c)
12 years
d)
20 years
9.
The grand blancs were ____.
a)
Plantation owners
b)
British
c)
Large Shopkeepers
d)
Traders
10.
As products of white plantation owner fathers and slave mothers, the gens de couleur were ____.
a)
Educated in Haiti
b)
Not recognized by their fathers
c)
Denied rights given to grand blancs
d)
Restricted with their rights
11.
How many times more blacks than whites lived in Haiti by 1789?
a)
5
b)
10
c)
15
d)
20
12.
The French Revolution battle cry Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity inspired the Haitian slaves to revolt in ___.
a)
1789
b)
1790
c)
1791
d)
1792
13.
Prior to the revolution, Toussaint L’Ouverture was a ____.
a)
Slave Trader
b)
Grand Blanc
c)
Petite blanc
d)
Coachman
14.
How did the Haitian slaves fight the French?
a)
Lined up on the battlefield
b)
Before the sugar harvest
c)
Guerilla style
d)
According to the Code Noir
15.
In November 1803 a slave army finally defeated Europe’s greatest military power, in their new Constitution the Haitians inserted a quote from the American Revolution _____.
a)
Free at last, free at last
b)
Don’t tread on me
c)
No taxation without representation
d)
Live free, or die
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