What Occurred by the End of the Seventeenth Century as the Slave

question 51

Multiple Choice

What occurred by the end of the seventeenth century as the slave population grew and slavery as an institution expanded?

• A) White owners became more comfortable living in a mixed race society.
• B) There were large-scale slave rebellions across the colonies.
• C) More and more slaves gradually purchased their freedom.
• D) Indians were sold alongside blacks.
• E) Slavery was increasingly shaped by racial discrimination.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.

Classical Conditioning

A training mechanism in which two stimuli are frequently paired together; over time, the response that was originally caused by the second stimulus is elicited by the first stimulus.

Unconditioned Response

A reflexive, instinctual reaction to an unconditioned stimulus, not learned through previous experience.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning, an essential concept in classical conditioning theories.