WorksheetsSlavery in Colonial America
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
True or False: Slavery began with indentured servants.
TRUE
FALSE
Why did indentured servants eventual become slaves?
They tried to escape.
More help was needed on the plantations.
Indentured servants were too expensive.
All of the above.
What types of jobs did the slaves have?
Transporting goods to other colonies
Woking in the fields
House servant
All of the above.
Why did people become indentured servants?
To pay off debts
To have their voyage to America paid for
To serve time for their crimes
All of the above
Which American colony did the first slaves arrive in?
Georgia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
What were the laws called that first gave legal rights to slave owners?
Slave Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Master Codes
Plantation Codes
How long would one set of slave clothes be expected to last?
6 months
5 years
A lifetime
1 year
TRUE OR FALSE: Slave children were often separated from their families as soon as they could work.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE OR FALSE: By the middle of the 1700's about 75% of the population in the southern colonies were slaves.
TRUE
FALSE
Slavery in the southern colonies continued until...
1840
after the Civil War
all of the slaves escaped
All of the above
