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Social Studies
Unit 5 Study Guide
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The people of West Africia had to decide whether they would trade people
for guns.
In the 1500s, most people of West Africa valued family and their ancestors.
Most slaves were put to work in the sugar and tobacco plantations.
Slaves on a slave ship in the Middle Passage had a lot of serious illness.
When Africans captured in the slave trade arrived in the American colonies,
they were first sold at scrambles or slave auctions.
The overseers main job was to supervise the work of the slaves.
To show resistance to their owners, some slaves pretended to not
understand what they were told to do.
In general, field workers had the hardest jobs on the plantations.
One way that slaves coped with their ordeal was to sing spirtuaals as they
worked in the fields.
Fredrick Douglass wrote about how slaves had to work in all types of
weather.
Colonial Williamsburg was the center of education and culture.
Lawmakers met at the capitol building.
Some girls that lived in Williamsburg learned to read at dame schools.
A craftsman would teach an apprentice. An example of this would be a
shoemaker.
At the Raleigh Tavern, leaders would discuss business and politics.
Politics means the running of the government.

The king chose the governor of the royal colony of Virginia.

The official religion of Virginia was Anglican.