Which of the following is true of the Atlantic slave trade in the late fifteenth century and thereafter?
A. Most slaves were taken by Europeans who raided coastal villages and enslaved the inhabitants
B. Slavery did not exist in Africa until the Europeans introduced it.
C. Most slaves were first enslaved by other Africans and then were sold to European traders.
D. The Portuguese opposed slavery and tried to prevent its extension to the New World.
E. Most slaves were Native Americans.
Answer: C
AP American History
- Colonists objected to the Dominion of New England because _____
- The Catholic successor to Charles II of England who was overthrown in the Revolution if 1689 was _____
- Colonists in New York were angry with James, Duke of York, because he _____
- The autocratic governor of New York and the Domination of New England was _____
- Titus Oakes earned fame by _____
- Which of the following accurately distinguishes between the original Whigs and Tories?
- Nathanial Bacon was _____
- When Nathanial Bacon was elected to the Virginia assembly, William Berkeley _____
- The leader of the 1676 Virginia Rebellion was _____
- Sir William Berkeley _____
- The Great Swamp Fight was conflict between Puritans and _____
- Which of the following is not true of Metacom's (King Philip's) War?
- By 1675, about _____ of those Indians living in southeastern New England were in various stages of conversion to Christianity.
- The large-scale warfare between European settlers and the Indians of New England that began in 1675 was called _____
- Thomas Mathew, Sr., Thomas Mathew, Jr. and John Elliot _____
- The "Five Nations" of the colonial period were _____
- The Staple Act of 1663 regulated goods _____
- The Navigation Acts required that _____
- For the most part, England's North American colonies responded to the Navigation Acts.
- Which of the following was not stated in the Navigation Act passed in 1652?
- Seventeenth-century philosophers believed that _____
- According to the theory of mercantilism, _____
- The policy of mercantilism entails all of the following except that colonies should _____
- Only _____ avoided war with the Indians during the 1640s.
- Women stood the best chance of inheriting property in _____