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Southern Colonies Plantation Quiz

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the primary function of Southern plantations in the Southern Colonies?

a)

To serve as small cities for community gatherings

b)

To grow and export cash crops

c)

To provide education for children

d)

To manufacture industrial goods

2.

Who was responsible for supervising all matters of the home on a plantation?

a)

The planter

b)

The overseer

c)

The planter's wife

d)

The indentured servant

3.

What role did artisans play on large plantations?

a)

They worked as cooks and nannies

b)

They supervised the plantation

c)

They provided needed items like tools and barrels

d)

They educated the planter's children

4.

Who were most of the laborers on large plantations?

a)

Planters and their families

b)

Overseers and managers

c)

Enslaved workers and indentured servants

d)

Local community members

5.

Which one is NOT an example of a job and Artisan worker might do?

a)

blacksmith

b)

cooper

c)

wig maker

d)

farmer

6.

It was easy in the Southern Colonies for children to be transported to school daily.

a)
True
b)
False
7.

How did many planter's children become educated?

a)

They went to public schools daily.

b)

They were educated with the enslaved workers' children.

c)

Private tutors were hired to educate them.

d)

The went to private religious schools.

8.

Sometimes enslaved workers labored in planters' homes as cooks, personal assistants, or tutors for the children.

a)
True
b)
False
9.

The Southern Colonies were very strict about their religion, and everyone was required to attend church.

a)
True
b)
False
10.

Religious freedom was the standard in the Southern Colonies.

a)
True
b)
False
11.

The highest social class in the Southern Colonies was the Artisans.

a)
True
b)
False
12.

Place the following social classes in order from the highest to the lowest. (highest class is #1)

a)

large landowners and plantation owners

b)

small farmers, artisans, merchants, doctors, lawyers, and ministers

c)

poor white men like tenant farmers, apprentices, manual workers, sailors, and semi-skilled tradesmen

d)

Indentured servants and enslaved individuals

1)
2)
3)
4)