Topic 15 Slavery Quiz Review

• How many Africans were ultimately sent to the 13 British North American colonies?

  At least 360,000
• Why did the Chesapeake begin to adopt slavery around 1680?

  The supply of whites willing to be indentured servants in the Chesapeake began to decline.

  The price of slaves dropped.

  Life expectancy in the Chesapeake increased.
• Which colony was envisioned as a slave colony from its inception?

  Carolina
• Which contributed to the rise of slavery in the English colonies?

  The huge need for workers.
• Where was African slavery first introduced in the English colonies?

  Barbados.
• What was the Black Legend?

  The European idea that the Spanish had been extremely cruel to the Native Americans.
• How many Native Americans did the Spanish claim to rule by the mid-1500s?

  20 million
• How did Sepulveda attempt to justify Spanish conquest of Native Americans?

  He asserted that Indians were natural slaves.
• Why did the Aztecs sacrifice human beings to their gods?

  They believed human beings were the best things that could be offered to the gods.
• What was the demographic catastrophe?

  The extreme decline in the Indian population during the 1500s.