Chapter 3

Quiz for Chapter Three Thinking Like a Historian: Servitude and Slavery

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Question 1

Considered as a pair, sources 1 and 2 provide evidence for which of the following conclusions?A. Slaves were more valuable to their masters than indentured servants.
B. Indentured servants were more valuable to their masters than slaves.
C. Masters were careful to purchase only healthy slaves and servants.
D. Masters were interested in the ethnic origins of their potential slaves and servants.

Question 2

What does source 3 suggest about the relationship between indentured servants and slaves in Virginia in the 1670s?A. Indentured servants were treated as if they were superior to slaves at this time.
B. Slaves and indentured servants lived under similar conditions in 1670s Virginia.
C. Planters were careful to segregate servants and slaves from one another.
D. Slaves preferred not to fraternize with white indentured servants at this time.

Question 3

The fact that source 4 appeared in an abolitionist work published in New York in 1807 is important to a historian’s interpretation of the source for which of the following reasons?A. Abolitionists performed the most thorough research into the conditions endured by American slaves.
B. Abolitionists were careful to avoid any appearance of bias in order to protect the legitimacy of their movement.
C. Because of their political agenda, abolitionist sources may reflect some biases and inaccuracies.
D. Their sympathies toward tobacco planters led abolitionists to minimize the severe conditions endured by slaves.

Question 4

In source 5, Joseph Mulders’s testimony is historically significant because itA. reveals that women servants were frequently beaten while men servants were not.
B. indicates that servants had access to legal recourse if their masters mistreated them.
C. shows that male servants endangered themselves in order to protect female servants.
D. proves that the system of indentured servitude was no different from that of slavery.

Question 5

In source 6, Thomas Ringgold’s statement “It seems to be the interest at least of every gentleman that has slaves, to be active in the beginning of these attempts . . .” suggests which of the following?A. Masters’ preference for servant labor over slave labor
B. Slave owners should not allow their slaves and servants to interact with one another.
C. The emergence of a distinctly African American culture
D. All slave owners have an interest in preventing the successful escape of slaves and servants.