Identify The Correct Statements About The Life Of Ayuba Diallo.

Identify the locations where slaves were most frequently sent after being transported to the New World on the Middle Passage.

-Brazil
-the West Indies

Identify the issue that was not a point of contention between colonial assemblies and their respective royal governors.

royal governors effectively carrying out the wishes of the crown

On the table below, click or tap to identify the first colony to have a black majority population.

South Carolina

The slave trade was a vital part of world commerce during the eighteenth century, one in which every European empire participated. Complete the following passage, which describes an integral component of that system.

The asiento—an agreement whereby Spain subcontracted to a foreign power the right to provide slaves to Spanish America—was an important diplomatic prize. Britain's acquisition of the asiento from the Dutch in the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 was a major step in its rise to commercial supremacy.

From the perception of the British nation, freedom, prosperity, and Protestantism seemed to mutually reinforce one another.

True

Spain's North American colonies

Spain's North American colonies had an economy based primarily upon ranching and trade, but because of wars in Europe, they never were able to assemble the military might necessary for them to dominate the region. However, these northern colonies still served a useful purpose to the Spanish, in that they served as a buffer to prevent further French territorial encroachment into Spanish interests.

1) Established in Boston in 1690, it was shut down after a single issue for criticizing a British military alliance with the Iroquois.

2) Considered one of the best edited colonial newspapers, it was established in Philadelphia in 1728 and later purchased by Benjamin Franklin

3) Its founder, William Zenger, was arrested and tried for seditious libel after criticizing the governor.

1) Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick

2) The Pennsylvania Gazette

3) New-York Weekly Journal

Identify the correct statements about the life of Ayuba Diallo.

Correct:
-He was a Senegalese merchant who was captured by slave traders in 1731.
-He was the subject of a portrait painted by the artist William Hoare.
Incorrect:
-Although a Muslim, he did not speak Arabic.
-He died in slavery in Virginia in 1734.

slave population in the mid-eighteenth century.

By the middle of the eighteenth century, due to a more healthy climate, the slave population in the Chesapeake began to experience net population growth. Due to plantations in the region being small, slaves here lived in constant contact with white culture.

An unintended but very real consequence of the Great Awakening was that it reduced colonial impulses toward democracy in civic life.

False

According to Dr. Foner, Father Junípero Serra, founder of the Spanish mission system in California, sought both to convert the indigenous population to Christianity and to consolidate Spanish rule in the northernmost part of its American empire. Place the following events relevant to Father Serra in chronological order.

1. First Spanish mission is established in North America
2. Father Junipero Serra dies
3. Mexico achieves independence from Spain
4. Father Junipero Serra is elevated to the sainthood by the catholic church

not behavior Scarouady objects to

assuming all Indians are allies
constructing a fort

The intended purpose of the presidios established in North America by the Spanish was primarily to oversee the religious conversion of Native Americans to Catholicism.

False

Identify the statements that describe the Spanish colonization of California

Correct:
-Spain's efforts at religious conversion were more intensive here than in any other of their North American colonies.
-The Spanish ultimately sought to assimilate the native peoples into their civilization.

Incorrect:
-California eventually became Spain's most populous colony in the New World.
-Unlike in earlier attempts at colonization, in California the Spanish sought to minimize their enslavement of native peoples.

Merchants and commercial interests in northern colonies, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, were opposed to the slave trade and did not benefit from it.

False

In the northern colonies, employers often saw free labor as more desirable than slave labor because of the generally accepted belief in northern economies that slavery was immoral

False

Identify the statements that accurately describe the life of Olaudah Equiano.

Correct:
-He was kidnapped at a young age and sold into slavery, first in Barbados, then Virginia.
-He participated in an expedition to the Arctic Circle.

Incorrect:
-He served as the British ambassador to Japan.
-He died in slavery.

American colonial voting and political participation was extremely restricted, and as such, directly reflected the English political heritage of North America's dominant colonial founders.

False

On the eve of the revolution, most of the American colonies had an established, official....... There was a high degree of religious......., but the government still recognized and supported an official church in each region, such as the Congregationalists in New England and the....... in the South.

-church
-pluralism
-Anglicans

Identify the statements that describe the religion of African slaves.

Correct:
-Africans tended to adopt and incorporate some features of Christianity into their belief systems.
-There was a general belief in a connection between the spiritual world and the forces of nature.
Incorrect:
-Protestant Christianity tended to dominate the spiritual lives of African-American slaves rapidly once they were separated from the African mainland.
-African-Americans in the North American colonies were more rapidly accepting of Christianity than Native Americans were.

Consider the map below depicting Atlantic trading routes in the eighteenth century. For each good traded across the Atlantic between the Old World and the New, identify the destination.

Goods Shipped to North America:
various manufactured goods
linens
horses

Goods Shipped to Europe
tobacco
furs
grain
lumber

Based on this map, what can be inferred about the Atlantic slave trade?

Correct
-Only a small proportion of Africans in the slave trade were destined for North America.
-The vast majority of Africans in the slave trade landed in Brazil or the West Indies.

Incorrect:
-Among European nations, the single biggest traffickers in slaves were the French.
-Most slaves came from Africa's northern coast, along the Mediterranean.
-There was no market for slaves in Europe.

What can be inferred about the establishment of missions and forts from the map below?

Correct:
-The Spanish made a concerted effort to colonize their territory north of Mexico.
-Forts and presidios were usually built near ports or waterways.

Incorrect:
-The French made a concerted effort to colonize the inland Louisiana territory.
-Missions were built mainly along the West Coast.