Chapter 14 lesson 4
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How were most enslave people employed on plantations?
field hands
(wrong answers:
domestics,
carpenters,
factory workers)
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Which of the following was part of the Slave Codes?
written passes to leave the property
(wrong answers:
hours enslaved people could work,
number of children permitted on the plantation,
permission to learn to read and write)
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What did the thriving economy of the South depend on?
slavery
(wrong answers:
canals,
tobacco,
social media)
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Who were the largest group of whites in the South?
yeoman
(wrong answers:
plantation workers,
rural poor,
the rich)
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Why did enslaved people need an extended family as a measure of security?
families were often separated
(wrong answers:
large families could do more work,
large families could help one another run away,
easier for large groups to escape )
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What was one purpose of spirituals?
to communicate secretly
(wrong answers:
to determine how to elect a leader,
to express thanks to the plantation owner,
to teach children to read)
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Enslaved people expressed their beliefs in religious folk songs called
spirituals
(wrong answers:
hymns,
psalms,
slave codes)