SS Lesson 8 - Slavery in the America's TCI

Which of these was true of most West Africans in the 1500s?

• They spoke the same language.

• They valued family and ancestors.

• They were captured and enslaved.

• They were long-distance traders.

A public sale where people who were enslaved were sold to the highest bidder is called a(n)

• auction

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• enslaver

What did Europeans offer to trade to the people of West Africa?

• lumber

• overseers

• guns

• all of the above

The ______is the exchange of goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa.

• Middle Passage

• enslaver

• auction

• triangular trade

What choice did West Africans make about enslaving and trading people?

• West Africans refused to take part in this trade.

• West Africans traded people who were already enslaved.

• West Africans tried to find enslaved people outside their nations

• all of the above

A(n) ______was a person who was in charge of the work of enslaved people and who could punish them for disobeying him.

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• enslaver

• auction

Where were most people enslaved in the West Indies and British North America forced to work?

• sugar and tobacco plantation

• gold and silver mines

• household kitchens

• grain and textile mills

The ________ is the voyage of ships carrying people who had been enslaved across the Atlantic Ocean.

• enslaver

• overseer

• auction

• Middle Passage

On ships in the Middle Passage, people who were enslaved _______.

• had a lot of living space.

• were able to move freely.

• developed many serious illnesses.

• revolted successfully frequently.

When Africans who had been captured and enslaved arrived in the American colonies, they were first ________.

• taught English so they could follow orders.

• given a full medical examinations.

• sold at scrambles or auctions.

• reunited with family members.