Life Under Slavery Crossword

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  1. 4. These surged among enslaved people due to increased hours on the plantations. (p.134)
  2. 7. In the painting on page 127 in your textbook, how did enslaved African Americans work in New England, in contrast to how they were forced to work in the Southern Colonies?
  3. 9. By 1750, people of color accounted for over 40% of Virginia's population and more than ____ of the colony of South Carolina. (p.132)
  4. 10. The floors in slave cabins or quarters were made from ___. (p.136)
  5. 11. a supervisor to the enslaved Africans working on plantations (p.134)
  6. 12. As a result of a slave's help in Boston, the city's people were protected from this disease. (p.137)
  7. 13. Because the colonists had no experience in this plant's cultivation, they relied on enslaved Africans to help them because they had grown this crop in West Africa.(p.132)
  8. 14. Plantation slaves kept their African ____ and traditions alive, even though their living and working conditions were often very difficult. (p.136)
  9. 15. Africans on plantations played instruments made of a ___cut in half with a goatksin stretched over it. (p.137)
  10. 17. Africans influenced colonial culture with their ____, which eventually had an impact on jazz and blues. (p.137)
  11. 18. many slaves had to work long into the _____ because overseers overworked them (p.134)
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  1. 1. The Southern Colonies developed a system of _____ ______ that relied on increasing numbers of enslaved Africans. (p.132)
  2. 2. Planters in the Southern Colonies orginally hired white ___________ ____________ to work for years in exchange for a plot of land (p.132)
  3. 3. England gave all English merchants permission to participate in slave trading during this century. (p.132)
  4. 5. In 1740, the colony of South Carolina enacted a harsh_____ _____ to prevent future revolts. (p.137)
  5. 6. More than ___ percent of the total African American popusupervisorthe colonies was enslaved. (spell the number; p. 132)
  6. 8. This is a word that was introduced into English thanks to the slaves and their blended African languages. (p.137)
  7. 16. Many slaves rebelled against their treatment and received harshed punishments. Everyon in the Stono Rebellion was punished with _____.