APWH Ch18 Practice Test Questions
And Answers
Which maroon community first signed treaties recognizing their independent status as
runaway slaves? CORRECT ANSWERS Jamaican
Although tobacco was a New World plant long used by Amerindians, CORRECT
ANSWERS it was Europeans who began growing the crop on large plantations
Africans who provided slaves to Europeans most often preferred to receive in return
CORRECT ANSWERS guns and textiles.
The expansion of sugar plantations in the West Indies required CORRECT ANSWERS
a sharp increase in the African slave trade
What was the principal cause of mortality aboard Atlantic slave ships? CORRECT
ANSWERS Disease
Both Muslims and Europeans obtained slaves from sub-Saharan Africa, but CORRECT
ANSWERS The Islamic trade was much smaller
Where would slave children most likely be found working? CORRECT ANSWERS in
"grass gangs" doing simple, lighter work.
Plantation slaves were motivated to work hard CORRECT ANSWERS to escape
punishment.
Which was NOT a method used to curtail African cultural traditions by European
planters? CORRECT ANSWERS mandatory primary education
In the eighteenth century, what was the major source of slaves in the interior of the
Bight of Biafra? CORRECT ANSWERS Kidnapped people
While the British system of mercantilism was defined by the Navigation Acts, the French
system used laws known as: CORRECT ANSWERS Exclusif
During the first 150 years after the European discovery of the Americas, how many
Africans were transported in the Atlantic slave trade? CORRECT ANSWERS 800,000
The English Navigation Acts in the 1660s were meant to CORRECT ANSWERS confine
trade to English ships and cargoes.
How did France and England expand their Caribbean holdings? CORRECT ANSWERS
by attacking older Spanish colonies
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