Question

Which of the following explains the overall results of violent rebellions among enslaved people in the United States?
A. None were successful, and they often resulted in harsher conditions for enslaved people.
B. Some were successful, and they often resulted in freedom for enslaved people.
C. None were successful because enslaved people had no weapons.
D. Some, like the Stono Rebellion, were successful. Others, like Nat Turner’s Rebellion, were not.

Answer 1

A. None were successful, and they often resulted in harsher conditions for enslaved people.

Explanation: Major violent rebellions in the United States—e.g., the Stono Rebellion (1739), Gabriel Prosser’s planned revolt (1800), and Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)—were suppressed. In response, states tightened slave codes, increased patrols, and imposed harsher penalties, making conditions more repressive. (The successful large-scale slave revolution was the Haitian Revolution, but that took place in Saint-Domingue/Haiti, not the United States.)