WorksheetsSouthern Plantations
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 47mins
What is the definition of 'Planter'?
Low-lying land along a coast
A pot with plants
A plantation owner
A job someone does to help the community or society as a whole
What is the definition of 'Tidewater'?
Water used for the plantation
A plantation owner
Water along the coast line
Low- lying land along a coast
What is the definition of 'Broker'?
A person which is paid to buy and sell for someone else.
A public sale.
A job someone does to help the community or society as a whole.
Someone who has no money
What is the definition of 'Auction'?
A person which is paid to buy and sell for someone else.
A religious song based on Bible stories.
A public sale.
A plantation owner.
What is the definition of 'Overseer'?
A religious song based on Bible stories.
A hired person who watched field slaves as they worked.
A job someone does to help the community or society as a whole.
A plantation owner.
What is the definition of 'Spiritual'?
A plantation owner.
A public sale.
A job someone does to help the community or society as a whole.
A religious song based on Bible stories.
What is the definition of 'Public service'?
A job someone does to help the community or society as a whole.
A hired person who watched field slaves as they worked.
A plantation owner .
A person which is paid to buy and sell for someone else.
Which of the following explains why the earliest plantations benefited from the southern tidewater?
The planters could bathe in the waters.
The soil was rich.
It was easier for colonists to fish for food.
The many waterways made it easy for boats to get crops to the market.
Many people in the Southern Colonies raised crops _______ .
On small plantations with flat land.
On large plantations with flat land.
On large plantations with lots of hills.
To give away for free.
How did plantations change as more workers were needed?
Plantation owners used slaves to do the work.
Plantation owners did the work themselves.
The plantations did not change.
Some plantations had schools.
The trip to England was so long and expensive it cost the planters ________ to pay the brokers than to go themselves.
Less
More
The same
_________ couldn't leave their land unattended for long periods of time.
Colonists
Brokers
Slaves
Planters
What are the differences between an indentured servant and a slave?
Indentured servants were sold like property at an auction and were enslaved for life.
Slaves only worked until their debt was paid off.
Slaves were sold like property at an auction and were enslaved for life.
Indentured servants only worked until their debt was paid off.
Among the first indentured servants to be sold in the ______ colonies were kidnapped Africans.
American
English
Carolina
New Hampshire
After some time, traders began bringing thousands of Africans to the colonies as ________.
Indentured servants
Slaves
Colonists
Planters
Which of the following describes a 'field slave'?
Slaves who worked in the fields raising cash crops.
They owned the fields
Slaves who were punished by an overseer if they did not work hard enough.
Slaves who worked in the house and washed clothes.
Which of the following describes a 'house slave'?
Slaves who worked on the plantations.
Slaves who did the washing, cooking, cleaning and sewing for the household.
Slaves who drove carriages, practiced carpentry and took care of the horses.
Slaves who only worked in the house.
Laws forbade _______ to learn to read and write.
Colonists
Planters
Slaves
Woman
Most enslaved children worked by the age of _____.
10
8
16
6
Some plantations had their own _______ or hired teachers from Europe.
Schools
Smart board
Tutors
Church
Clothing, feeding, and providing medical care for all the members of their household were the responsibilities of __________.
Teachers
Children
Slaves
Plantations owners
Doing public service for the community which included serving as as a judge or as representative in the colonial assembly were the responsibilities of _________.
Plantation owners.
Slaves
Indentured servants
Brokers
What did the planters' sons do after going to school on the plantations?
Went to Europe to start their own plantations.
Went to Europe to get married.
Went to Europe to continue their education.
Went to Europe to sell crops.
