Unit 2 Power and Oppression

Capturing, transporting, and selling people is called the 

• slave auction
• overseer
• slave trade
• Middle Passage

Most slaves in history have been taken from this continent:

• Europe

• North America

• Africa

• Asia

What was the legal status of slaves in the United States?

• citizen
• property
• dependents
• immigrants

Which continents were involved in the triangular trade?

• Africa

• North and South America

• Asia

• Europe

How did the success of rice as a cash crop affect the trade of enslaved Africans?

• Less enslaved Africans were traded in the colonies.

• More enslaved Africans were traded in the colonies.

• Indentured servants were used instead.

• Enslaved Africans were not traded anymore.

Enslaved Africans were forced to worked on plantations and were not paid for their work.

• True

• False

According to the chart, in which year was the amount of enslaved population at the highest point in the South?

• 1670

• 1700

• 1730

• 1760

According to the chart, in which year was the amount of enslaved population at the lowest point in the North?

• 1670

• 1700

• 1730

• 1760

3. How were the African people transported to the coast?

• They walked in shackles and chains.

• They took caravans of camels.

• Enslavers only took people from the coast.

• They took scooters.

Why were Africans captured and forced to work in the Americas?

• To spread Christianity

• To give them diseases

• To share riches and wealth with them

• To provide more workers for plantations