Labor in the Chesapeake

1) Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonists acquired most of their labor from

    A) indentured servants

    B) African slaves

    C) captured Indians

    D) hired hands

2) English North America adopted African slavery from the example set by the Portuguese and Spanish. True False

3) Most Africans who found themselves transported to the Americas as slaves had been captured by European slave traders. True False

4) Some modern researchers believe fully one-half of all immigrants to the English North American colonies were unfree. True False

5) Slavery in Africa, like Europe and the Americas, had a long-standing tradition. True False

6) Like the institution of chattel slavery in English North America by 1700, slavery in Africa was life-long and hereditary. True False

7) The Portuguese and Spanish first used African slaves in the production of .

8) The had a monopoly on the African trade among English merchants.

9) The traditional term of service of an indentured servant was

    A) 2 years.

    B) 3-4 years.

    C) 5-7 years

    D) 10 years

10) The crop in the Chesapeake Bay area that required an enormous amount of labor was

    A) rice

    B) tobacco

    C) indigo

    D) sugar