Week 3 Quiz

A colonial worker signed a contract to labor for a set number of years and went free when that time was over. Which course term names this status?

Select one.

• Indentured servitude
• Hereditary racial slavery
• A frame of government
• An oral account

Which features did hereditary racial slavery have under colonial law? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• It lasted for life
• It ended after a fixed term of years
• It passed to children through the mother
• It bound only the person who signed a contract
• It was tied by law to African descent

True or false: racial slavery arrived in Virginia as a complete legal system in 1619, the year in which, by the National Park Service's account (in paraphrase), a ship brought more than 20 Africans there.

True or false.

• True
• False

Under an illustrative colonial law, the children and grandchildren of an enslaved person are held in bondage as well, generation after generation. Which course term names the status such laws built?

Select one.

• Indentured servitude
• Hereditary racial slavery
• A term of years
• A frame of government

The course reads the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina on the Avalon Project. Which description sources that text correctly?

Select one.

• A royal charter that a king granted to a company of investors
• A covenant that settlers signed among themselves
• A colonial frame of government, dated by Avalon's heading
• A law passed by a colonial assembly

The pinned fragment "Every freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power and authority over his negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever." comes from which document on the course roster?

Select one.

• The First Charter of Virginia issued by King James I
• The Mayflower Compact signed at Cape Cod
• The Treaty of Tordesillas in its English translation
• The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

Avalon's notes connect John Locke and the Earl of Shaftesbury with the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. In whose name does the course's roster record the document as made?

Select one.

• John Locke, the philosopher the notes name
• The Lords Proprietors of Carolina
• The Earl of Shaftesbury, who amended it
• Carolina's freemen, named in its slavery article

Indentured servants and enslaved people were both bound to labor in the colonies. Which question tells indentured servitude apart from hereditary racial slavery?

Select one.

• Was the person made to work for someone else?
• Does the status end, and does it pass to children?
• Did the person live in a colony with tobacco farms?
• Was the person brought across the Atlantic by ship?

For a question about one person's own experience of slavery, how should an oral account recorded in the 1930s from a person born into slavery be sorted?

Select one.

• As a secondary source, because it was recorded many decades after the events it describes
• As neither kind of source, because spoken words are not evidence
• As a secondary source, because someone else wrote the words down
• As a primary source for that person's experience, read with the gap in time in mind

Put these documents in the order they were made, earliest first: the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, and the First Charter of Virginia.

Select one.

• The Mayflower Compact, the First Charter of Virginia, the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
• The First Charter of Virginia, the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, the Mayflower Compact
• The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, the Mayflower Compact, the First Charter of Virginia
• The First Charter of Virginia, the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina