6. Time that Africans spent aboard ship en route to enslavement in America was c
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6. Time that Africans spent aboard ship en route to enslavement in America was called Hell on earth. A) B) C) D) Middle passage. Purgatory. The good old days. 7. The average family in colonial America had A) B) C) D) About 500 acres. An annual income of perhaps $500 per capita. Seven or eight children. Several couples and their children sharing a log cabin. 8. The term "industrious revolution" refers to A) An early effort to organize labor unions. B) Getting more slaves to do work necessary for prosperity. C) Introduction of labor-saving machinery in America D) People producing more so they would have more income to spend. 9. Southern colonies A) B) C) Accounted for 60 percent of colonial exports. Had no natural ports. Led the colonies in literacy because more children attended school in southern colonies. Suffered from the highest rate of unemployment. D) 10. An export shipment from New England in the middle of the eighteenth century would have most likely consisted of A) Wheat for England. B) Corn to Mexico. C) Slaves to New York. D) Livestock for the West Indies. 11. An increase in the shipbuilding industry in colonial America also stimulated what other industry? A) Harvesting omega-3 oil from fish. B) Lumber production. C) Smuggling. D) Weather prediction. 12. All major cities in colonial America were A) B) C) D) Losing population by the beginning of the eighteenth century Ports or centers for the fur trade. Prosperous. "Sores on the body politic," according to the evangelist George Whitefield.Explanation / Answer
6 - Middle passage
Explanation - The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
7- (c)
This is a fact, no such explanation can be given for this.
8 - (c)
During the Industrious Revolution, many workers resented the introduction of machinery, believing it would result in mass unemployment across sectors.
9 - (a)
The Southern colonies, held the largest share of colonial wealth by 1774, based on estate probate records of the 13 colonies. They accounted for 60% of colonial exports.
10 - (d)
11 - (b)
For shipbuilding they found an abundant supply of trees, particularly live oak for masts. A lucrative trade in lumber, furs, and agricultural products soon developed that demanded the construction of local ships far more cheaply.
12 - (b)
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