The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Slaves

Which of the following was NOT something that African slaves faced?

• Branding

• Cramped Conditions

• Ears cut off

• Easy passage

What was a common form of slave resistance?

• Accepting their fate without complaint

• Forming alliances with slave traders

• Revolting and running away

• Writing petitions to European governments

operation that captured and sold people from their homeland to work on colonial plantations

• slave trade

• exploration

• colonization

• individual rights

Conditions on a slave ship (for the slaves) journeying across the Atlantic Ocean consisted of...

• disease

• dead bodies

• no sanitation

• comfort

Effect of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

• African families were torn apart

• African people joined together to revolt

• Tribal leaders gained more power

• The slave trade had no effect

What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

• Jews

• Chinese

• Africans

• Russians

Many slaves died during the voyage of the Middle Passage,

• True

• False

In the 1500's, African's were enslaved and sold for ​guns and other ​ (a)   goods.
Those that survived the forced journey were then brought to work on ​ (b)   plantations .
This was called the ​ (c)   slave trade.

• colonial

• Atlantic

• Pacific

• European

• American

• British

Slaves were captured from _____

• England

• Europe

• Africa

• France

What is the Middle Passage?

• Water Route Through North America

• European slave trade with India

• European slave trade with the Americas