Indentured Servants vs. Enslaved People
Q: This type of laborer agreed to work for several years in exchange for a trip to the colonies.
A: Who is an indentured servant?
Q: Goods and people moved between Africa, Europe, and this region.
A: What is the Americas?
Q: In the American South, enslaved people were often forced to work on fields growing this plant.
A: What is Tobacco?
Or Cotton
Q: A person who believed slavery should end is called this.
A: What is an abolitionist?
Q: The first enslaved Africans arrived in this English colony in 1619.
A: What is Virginia?
Q: Which group had no legal freedom and was forced to work for life?
A: Who were enslaved Africans?
Q: This part of the route carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
A: What is the Middle Passage?
Q: In Northern cities, enslaved people were more likely to work in these roles.
A: What are skilled or household jobs?
Artisans, blacksmiths, etc
The first slave market in NYC was located here...
What is Wall street?
Q: Most Africans taken from their homeland were sent to work in this general part of the world.
A: What is the Americas (especially the Caribbean and South America)?
Q: What was one reason enslaved labor eventually replaced indentured servitude in the South?
A: What is permanent labor with no end date?
also save $ and didnt abuse ppl who looked like them
Q: Ships from Europe often brought these items to Africa to trade for enslaved people.
A: What are manufactured goods like guns and textiles?
Q: Enslaved people sometimes resisted by...
Breaking tools, stealing food, working slowly, pretending to be sick or insane. Poisoning masters
Q: What was the goal of enslaved people who organized uprisings or rebellions?
A: What is gaining freedom or fighting injustice?
Q: Why did European colonists want African labor on plantations?
A: What is to meet the demand for labor-intensive cash crops?
Q: How did colonial leaders try to keep poor whites and enslaved Africans from joining forces?
A: What is passing laws that created racial divisions?
Whites who were caught helping black would recieve harsh punishments
10% of Voyages through the Middle Passage ended up in this?
What is Slave insurrection or rebellion?
Q: A sale where people were bought and sold as property.
A: What is a slave auction?
Q: Why did elite landowners want to keep poor whites and enslaved Africans separated?
A: What is to avoid rebellion from the working class?
Q: This famous financial district once profited from the slave trade.
A: What is Wall Street?
Q: Name one way the experiences of indentured servants and enslaved Africans were similar—and one way they were different.
A: What is both worked hard under harsh conditions, but only indentured servants were eventually freed?
Q: How did the triangular trade affect life in West African communities?
A: What is it caused violence, family separation, and population loss?
Q: What was the purpose of slave codes in the colonies?
A: What is to control enslaved people’s movements, behavior, and communication?
Q: Why did slaveholders consider even nonviolent actions like song, storytelling, or secret gatherings a threat to their control?
A: What is these actions helped enslaved people preserve culture, build unity, and quietly resist dehumanization?
Q: How did the arrival of Africans in 1619 influence the development of American colonies long-term?
A: What is it laid the foundation for a system of racial slavery that shaped the economy and society?