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1. African slaves helped Pedro Menèndez de Avilès establish____

A. St. Augustine
B. Ft. Henry
C. DeLand


2. Who was a free black conquistador who arrived with Ponce de Leòn's expedition in 1513?

A. Abraham
B. Prince Witten
C. Juan Garrido

3. The first legally sanctioned free black town in what is now the United States, located just north of St. Augustine, is ______

A. Jacksonville
B. Gracia Real Santa Teresa de Mose
C. Miami

4. According to the legend, a black pirate called ______ took a toll on ships sailing off the Great Florida Reef near present-day Miami.

A. Abraham
B. Black Caesar
C. Fransisco Menendez

5. The leniency with which the ______ Indians treated their black slaves worried many white slave holders in Florida and Georgia.

A. Seminole
B. Cleveland
C. Apache

6. ______ was a black Seminole who counseled and interpreted for the Seminoles in their dealings with whites

A. John Philip
B. Luis Pacheco
C. John Horse

7. ______ was a "chief negro" to King Philip, leader of an Indian band.

A. King Louis III
B. Prince Witten
C. John Philip

8. ______, an escaped black slave, was Chief Micanopy's advisor.

A. Luis Pacheco
B. Abraham
C. Truman

9.In 1795, ______, a runaway slave, asked the Spanish governor in St. Augustine to grant him and other blacks land on the basis of their citizenship.

A. Prince Witten
B. King Henry
C. Harris

10.During the late eighteenth century, slave master on Spanish Florida plantations were often linked to their slaves as ______.

A. godparents
B. parents
C. brothers

 

11. In 1693, ______ of Spain issued a royal proclamation on the status of runaways to Florida, giving them their freedom.

A. King Charles I
B. King Charles II
C. King Charles III

12. In 1738, ______, an escaped slave, was captain of the Mose militia, a free black company in St. Augustine.

A. Guillermo
B. Diego Santos
C. Fransisco Menendez


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