1. What factors led to the expansion of slave labor in the Southern Colonies? 2. Describe the backcountry. Then how did the environment of the backcountry affect how people settling there made a living?

3. How did enslaved persons on plantations improve their living conditions and protest their working conditions?

4. Why is studying slavery important to our understanding of our nation’s past AND present? Explain using at least three reasons why. Your reasons should be based on historical fact.