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AP African American Studies: Labor, Culture, and Economy Under Slavery — Drill 9

Drill 9 · Multiple Choice · Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance

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AP African American Studies: Labor, Culture, and Economy Under Slavery — Drill 9 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

AP African American Studies practice questions on plantation labor systems, the economic role of enslaved people in building American wealth, and African American cultural production—music, religion, and language—under slavery. AP exam prep aligned to Unit 2 of the College Board CED.

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Enslaved people on Southern plantations were not simply laborers but skilled workers, artisans, and cultural creators. They cleared land, built the plantation houses they were forbidden to own, raised children who would be sold away, and cultivated crops whose profits they would never see. In the evenings and on Sundays—the limited hours not owned by enslavers—they sang, prayed, told stories, and created a culture that drew on African roots while transforming them into something distinctly their own.

— Adapted from scholarly description of plantation life, based on CED Unit 2 essential knowledge

Questions in This Drill

  1. According to the source, how did enslaved people use the limited time not controlled by enslavers?
  2. The source’s description of enslaved people as “skilled workers, artisans, and cultural creators” is most significant because it
  3. Which of the following best explains the economic significance of enslaved labor to the antebellum United States economy as a whole—not just to the Southern states?
  4. Scholars have argued that the music created by enslaved African Americans served not only as cultural expression but as a form of resistance to the institution of slavery. Which of the following best supports this argument?
  5. Compared to the African cultural traditions enslaved people brought from the continent, the culture they created in the Americas is best described as