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WorksheetsSouthern Colonies Plantation Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
What was the primary function of Southern plantations in the Southern Colonies?
To serve as small cities for community gatherings
To grow and export cash crops
To provide education for children
To manufacture industrial goods
Who was responsible for supervising all matters of the home on a plantation?
The planter
The overseer
The planter's wife
The indentured servant
What role did artisans play on large plantations?
They worked as cooks and nannies
They supervised the plantation
They provided needed items like tools and barrels
They educated the planter's children
Who were most of the laborers on large plantations?
Planters and their families
Overseers and managers
Enslaved workers and indentured servants
Local community members
Which one is NOT an example of a job and Artisan worker might do?
blacksmith
cooper
wig maker
farmer
It was easy in the Southern Colonies for children to be transported to school daily.
How did many planter's children become educated?
They went to public schools daily.
They were educated with the enslaved workers' children.
Private tutors were hired to educate them.
The went to private religious schools.
Sometimes enslaved workers labored in planters' homes as cooks, personal assistants, or tutors for the children.
The Southern Colonies were very strict about their religion, and everyone was required to attend church.
Religious freedom was the standard in the Southern Colonies.
The highest social class in the Southern Colonies was the Artisans.
Place the following social classes in order from the highest to the lowest. (highest class is #1)
large landowners and plantation owners
small farmers, artisans, merchants, doctors, lawyers, and ministers
poor white men like tenant farmers, apprentices, manual workers, sailors, and semi-skilled tradesmen
Indentured servants and enslaved individuals
