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- In this lesson, we will learn about some of the British families who made fortunes in the Caribbean from sugar.
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5 Questions
Q1.
Which was the first successful English colony in America?
Barbados, Caribbean
Jamaica, Caribbean
Roanoke, North Carolina
Q2.
What was an indentured servant?
A person who did hard work
A person who was a servant for life
A person who went to America but had no freedom
Q3.
Which of the below was NOT one of the main groups of people who lived in Virginia?
Enslaved people
Indentured servants
Planters
Q4.
Which of these statements best describes a Puritan person?
A Christian who really wanted to move to America
A Christian who was really focused on being clean
A devout Catholic who wished people would pray more
Q5.
Why did Anne Hutchinson go to Boston?
She had been put on trial for having an education and was sent there.
She wanted to travel and explore a new place.
She was a Catholic trying to avoid punishment in England.
5 Questions
Q1.
What is a sugar baron?
a noble person who lived in England and liked to eat sugar
a person who stole sugar from plantation owners
an enslaved person who worked on a sugar plantation
Q2.
At first who did the sugar barons get to work on their plantations?
Enslaved people
Family members
They did all the work themselves
Q3.
What did Christopher Codrington do with much of his money when he died?
Gave it to enslaved people
He had no money left when he died
Used it to set enslaved people on his plantations free
Q4.
Who did Robert Cooper Ashby have most of his children with?
A mixed race woman whose name we don't know
He didn't have any children
His wife, Mary
Q5.
What did sugar barons receive from the British government as part of the abolition of slavery?
Nothing
Prison sentences
Respect