Slavery and Servitude in the Colonies Questions and Answers
What are the short-term and long-term consequences of the transatlantic slave trade?
Why did slavery start in the colonies?
How did slavery influence the society and economy of the southern colonies?
What factors led to the rise of the slave trade?
Compare and contrast the lives of slaves and indentured servants.
Why did the economy in the South rely on slave labor?
Which of the 13 colonies had slaves?
Which of the original 13 Colonies abolished slavery first? Which two Northern States retained slavery until the early 1800's?
Why did slavery start in the United States? How long did it last for?
What were the economic benefits of the triangular trade for the Europeans and the colonists?
Explain how race-based slavery developed during the seventeenth century. How did this impact the social and economic development of colonial America?
What laws where used to control slaves?
Compare and contrast North American with Latin American slavery.
What were the effects of the Middle Passage on both slave traders and slaves?
What was the historical significance of indentured servants?
How did Europeans and Americans justify slavery?
Describe the effects of the Middle Passage on Africans.
Why were Africans used as slaves instead of Native Americans?
What was triangular trade?
What is the main reason that slavery took root in the colonies?
Why did the Europeans treat the Africans differently from the way they treated the Native Americans from 1492 to 1808?
Why were slaves brought to the colonies?
How was the Atlantic slave trade organized and who controlled each aspect of the trade?
What happened in Virginia in 1619?
What are "Saltwater Africans" in African-American history?
Why did English settlers turn to Africans for slaves?
Compare and contrast indentured servants and slaves in United States history.
Why did slavery take root and develop in the North American colonies?
How did white women’s participation in the abolitionist movement push them to a new understanding of their own rights and oppression?
Describe the importance of the Middle Passage to the history of African Americans.
Why did African slavery immediately become the dominant labor system in South Carolina, while it was slow to dominate in the other Southern colonies?
What was life like for indentured servants in the colonies?
What led to the adoption of slavery in the American colonies?
What was the impact of the Middle Passage and Triangular Trade?
How were indentured servants treated?
Which African tribes were sent to the United States as slaves?
What was the historical significance of the plantation system?
What systems of forced labor took hold in the Chesapeake colonies?
What is the significance or importance of the Atlantic Circuit? (Also known as the triangle trade)
Why did the colonies need enslaved Africans?
Why did the government allow slavery?
Why did the plantation system develop in the South?
Describe the development of slavery in colonial America.
State the arguments for and against slavery in the American colonies in strictly economic terms. This question, of course, ignores the moral debate over slavery.
Discuss how slavery denied people their basic human rights and ways abolitionists fought against slavery.
Did Native Americans own slaves?
Who was the first slave owner in America?
Why did the American South feel they needed slave labor?
Did Britain bring most of the slaves to America?
Why did slavery become a widespread institution in eighteenth-century colonial North America?
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