AAST 215 Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

AAST 215 Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Researchers have found that Africans were the first humans to engage in the iron smelting process to
make tools and other functional items. (True or False) - CORRECT ANSWER True



Originally, the status of free or slave for Black children could be determined if their mother converted
to Christianity and was free, but laws were enacted which ensured the enslavement of Blacks
regardless of their mother's conversion to Christianity. (True or False) - CORRECT
ANSWER True



Maroons were Africans who helped White enslavers capture other Africans. (True or False) -
CORRECT ANSWER False



Sexual intercourse between Black and White couples produced perhaps as much as 1/4 to 1/3 of the
children born out of wedlock in Maryland and Virginia during the 1600s. (True or False) - CORRECT
ANSWER True



Tunka-Menin was the most important leader of the West African kingdom of Ghana. (True or False) -
CORRECT ANSWER False



"Breaking in" or the "seasoning process" was the name of the training process for which Whites, who
helped to control Blacks on plantations, had to go through before they were permitted to oversee
Blacks. (True or False) - CORRECT ANSWER False



On the continent of Africa, Africans enslaved other Africans for life and considered them chattel
(human cattle or property) the same way Europeans enslaved Africans. (True or False) - CORRECT
ANSWER False



White enslavers attempted to make White indentured servants, poor Whites, and Native Americans
(so-called Indians) slaves before they singled out Africans for slaves. (True or False) - CORRECT
ANSWER True



Based on their belief in the primitive cultural development of Africans, European's initial (first)
interest in Africa was to acquire African slaves. (True or False) - CORRECT ANSWER False

, One historian estimates that the number of enslaved Africans transported from Africa during the
Middle Passage was as high as 12.5 million. (True or False) - CORRECT ANSWER True



15 percent of Blacks died in the first 3 to 4 years during the "seasoning" or "breaking in" process.
(True or False) - CORRECT ANSWER False



Gold was an important part of the economic prosperity of Ghana. (True or False) - CORRECT
ANSWER True



White leaders in colonial America became afraid of poor Whites and Blacks joining in protest and
rebellion of their mistreatment by the leadership class. Because of instances such as Bacon's Rebellion
and the murders in New York in 1741 of poor Whites and Blacks based on rumors of rebellion
resulted in strict laws that separated Blacks and Whites to break up class-based organizing. (True or
False) - CORRECT ANSWER True



Bishop Bartolomeo De las Casas argued for Africans to be brought into the Caribbean Islands to
replace the "Indians" as slaves. (True or False) - CORRECT ANSWER True



The African explorer who opened up Florida for Spain is Estevanico/Esteban/Estevan. (True or False)
- CORRECT ANSWER True



The first twenty Blacks in Jamestown, Virginia were classified as servants/indentured servants. (True
or False) - CORRECT ANSWER True



Before Africans were singled out to provide cheap labor in colonial America, European and African
servants were treated similar, poor, worked in harsh conditions together, had many of the same legal
rights, formed bonds from working alongside one another, thus creating a society based more on class
rather than race. (True or False) - CORRECT ANSWER True



Researchers have found that Blacks in America lost all of their African cultural traditions by the 1700s
because of slavery and contact with White culture. (True or False) - CORRECT
ANSWER False