MASTER GEORGE'S PEOPLE

Washington freed the enslaved people he owned ...

• upon his death

• one at a time over many years

• by family groups

• the year after the Revolutionary War

... because many of the enslaved people on Mount Vernon did not belong to him or Martha.

• Washington had to pay rent on his servants

• Washington couldn't give orders to the field hands

• Washington couldn't free his slaves

• Washington was prosecuted for theft

Washington sought to be an example to other slaveholders by ...

• freeing his slaves upon his death

• making a larger profit on his slaves' labor

• feeding his people better than other plantations

• giving the most elaborate parties

As Washington grew older, his _________ toward enslaved people increased.

• indifference

• hostility

• empathy

• resentment

What is the “only stain” Reverend Richard Allen found on Washington's character.

• Cherry Pie

• tendency to exaggerate

• severe indebtedness

• owning enslaved people

The children of enslaved people on Washington's Mount Vernon were ...

• severely oppressed

• forced to work in mills for 12 hours per day

• like kids everywhere, playing and getting into mischief

• kept away from the Mansion, on distant farms

Given his upbringing and the society he came from, Washington probably had trouble ...

• dancing the minuet

•  imagine life without slaves

• seeing anyone as his equal

• acting normally around ordinary people

Washington replied to Black Poet Phillis Wheatley ...

• with a message that he didn't like poetry

• that he had never heard of a Black poet

• with an invitation to dinner

• too late to prevent her from leaving Philadelphia

_____________a model of the social status and power of people in a society

• A pile of dirt is

• A Government is

• A Kingdom is

• A Social Hierarchy

In the pyramid model of a social hierarchy, the point of the pyramid is occupied by ...

• the enslaved

• the army

• the king

• the middle class