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WorksheetsThe Life of a Plantation Slave
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 6mins
European slaves were first brought to the Americas during the Age of Exploration.
True
False
Cotton
Silk
Wool
What is the definition of an auction?
A ship.
A public sale.
A plantation owner.
The lives of plantation slaves were:
hard
easy
a choice
How long did slaves on plantations work per week?
From sunrise to sunset
For 8 hours a day
Why could the person who owned slaves treat them any way he wanted?
Because the slaves allowed it.
Because slaves had no rights.
Because the slaves were paid for what they did.
Because the people who owned slaves did not care about the law.
Slaves resisted their oweners by...
learning to read and write
pretending to be sick
destroying food
all of the options mentioned
The invention of the Cotton Gin helped to reduce the number of slaves.
True
False
