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Southern Colonies: Plantations and Slavery in the Early 18th Century Quiz

This quiz covers information on influential people, important events, and vocabulary associated with Southern Colonial plantations and slavery in the early 18th century. 

  1. The Southern colonies had many small towns which were densely populated. 

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  2. In 1676, a group of landless frontier settlers demanded that Virginia Governor William Berkeley help defend their frontier settlements against Native Americans which sparked the 

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  3. Why did Southern planters choose to enslave Africans?

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  4. Slaves often worked upwards of 15 hours per day. 

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  5. Crops that are raised and sold for profits were known as

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  6. The owners of the plantations were considered the _____________ of society. 

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  7. She introduced indigo as a successful plantation crop. 

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  8. African slaves resisted against their white captures by 

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  9. Two popular crops that were sold for great profits in the South

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  10. A plant that produces a deep blue dye that was cultivated on the higher ground. 

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  11. By 1750, there were over 235,000 enslaved Africans in American, and 68 percent lived in the Southern Colonies. 

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  12. Supervisors who looked after the Africans while they worked were called 

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  13. In 1665 fewer than 500 Africans had been brought into Virginia. 

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  14. The flat land along the coast where most plantations were built. 

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  15. The planter class made up a large number of the Southern population.

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  16. The Northern economy was more diverse than the Southern economies. 

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  17. In 1739, African slaves rebelled southwest of Charles Town in what was known as the 

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  18. Nathaniel Bacon took over the House of Burgesses and burnt Jamestown to the ground. 

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