AAST 215 Final Exam - Prof. O - EWU Questions and Answers Graded A+
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) - Answers 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) - Answers True
Maroons were Africans who helped White enslavers capture other Africans. (True or False) -
Answers 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) -
Answers True
Tunka-Menin was the most important leader of the West African kingdom of Ghana. (True or
False) - Answers 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) - Answers 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) -
Answers 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)
- Answers 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) - Answers 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) - Answers True
15 percent of Blacks died in the first 3 to 4 years during the "seasoning" or "breaking in" process.
(True or False) - Answers False
Gold was an important part of the economic prosperity of Ghana. (True or False) - Answers 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) - Answers 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) - Answers True
The African explorer who opened up Florida for Spain is Estevanico/Esteban/Estevan. (True or
False) - Answers True
The first twenty Blacks in Jamestown, Virginia were classified as servants/indentured servants.
(True or False) - Answers 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) - Answers 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) - Answers False
Enslaved Blacks in the southern colonies during the 1700s would have been free if they fled to
the New England colonies because their devotion to Christianity made them despise slavery as
a sin. (True or False) - Answers False
Fellow Bostonians cheered and celebrated Cotton Mather for learning how to heal
complications from the smallpox disease from an African who taught him African folk medical
practice they called Inoculation. (True or False) - Answers False
Caesar was an African healer in South Carolina and is an example of how Africans maintained
their African cultural heritage to do amazing things on colonial American soil. (True or False) -
Answers True
The famous 1739 slave revolt, which resulted in the death of 30 Whites and 44 Blacks, near
Charleston, South Carolina is called the Stono Rebellion. (True or False) - Answers True
Blacks and Native Americans in Louisiana worked together at times to rebel against Whites
because Whites oppressed both groups. (True or False) - Answers True
Some American colonists saw it as a contradiction to argue for freedom against Great Britain's
oppression while enslaving Blacks in America. A perfect example of this is the overwhelming
appreciation and acceptance by co-authors of Thomas Jefferson's contribution in a draft of the
Declaration of Independence in which he spoke out against slavery. (True or False) - Answers
False
George Washington only allowed the enlistment of Blacks to fight against the British for
independence in the Revolutionary War after he learned that Lord Dumore promised Blacks
freedom if they fought on the side of the British. (True or False) - Answers True
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) - Answers 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) - Answers True
Maroons were Africans who helped White enslavers capture other Africans. (True or False) -
Answers 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) -
Answers True
Tunka-Menin was the most important leader of the West African kingdom of Ghana. (True or
False) - Answers 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) - Answers 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) -
Answers 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)
- Answers 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) - Answers 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) - Answers True
15 percent of Blacks died in the first 3 to 4 years during the "seasoning" or "breaking in" process.
(True or False) - Answers False
Gold was an important part of the economic prosperity of Ghana. (True or False) - Answers 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) - Answers 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) - Answers True
The African explorer who opened up Florida for Spain is Estevanico/Esteban/Estevan. (True or
False) - Answers True
The first twenty Blacks in Jamestown, Virginia were classified as servants/indentured servants.
(True or False) - Answers 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) - Answers 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) - Answers False
Enslaved Blacks in the southern colonies during the 1700s would have been free if they fled to
the New England colonies because their devotion to Christianity made them despise slavery as
a sin. (True or False) - Answers False
Fellow Bostonians cheered and celebrated Cotton Mather for learning how to heal
complications from the smallpox disease from an African who taught him African folk medical
practice they called Inoculation. (True or False) - Answers False
Caesar was an African healer in South Carolina and is an example of how Africans maintained
their African cultural heritage to do amazing things on colonial American soil. (True or False) -
Answers True
The famous 1739 slave revolt, which resulted in the death of 30 Whites and 44 Blacks, near
Charleston, South Carolina is called the Stono Rebellion. (True or False) - Answers True
Blacks and Native Americans in Louisiana worked together at times to rebel against Whites
because Whites oppressed both groups. (True or False) - Answers True
Some American colonists saw it as a contradiction to argue for freedom against Great Britain's
oppression while enslaving Blacks in America. A perfect example of this is the overwhelming
appreciation and acceptance by co-authors of Thomas Jefferson's contribution in a draft of the
Declaration of Independence in which he spoke out against slavery. (True or False) - Answers
False
George Washington only allowed the enlistment of Blacks to fight against the British for
independence in the Revolutionary War after he learned that Lord Dumore promised Blacks
freedom if they fought on the side of the British. (True or False) - Answers True
