25 questions
This enslaved person’s journey from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean on a slave-trading ship.
Middle Passage
Triangular trade
Slave trade
Journey
This is the forced migration of millions of captured and enslaved people from Africa to the Americas.
Slave Trade
Gold Trade
Salt Trade
Silver Trade
This is a series of transatlantic trade routes
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage
Slave Trade
Trade Winds
Europeans were looking for cheap labor to work on
plantaions
factories
farms
armies
What is tight packing on a slave ship?
slaves would be packed in the ship with high death rates
slaves would be lightly packed in the ship and little problems of death.
What happened when the slaves came to America?
They were be cleaned and inspected before being sold.
They would be sold into slavery right after getting off the boat.
They would be walked through town before being sold.
What continents did the Atlantic Slave Trade include?
North America, South America, and Brazil
America, Europe, and Africa
Asia, Europe, and Africa
Australia, Asia, and Europe
How did Europeans justify enslaving Africans?
They claimed that Africans were inferior
They claimed that Africans were superior
They claimed that Africans wanted to be slaves
Which phrase accurately describes the conditions aboard the slave ship?
comfortable with plenty of food
Accommodating
Light and Spacious
Dark and Claustrophic
A person who sells their labor for passage to American then works off their debt is a
slave
indentured servant
overseer
slave trader
Which is a reason Africans were taken as slaves?
they were immune to many diseases
they had no farming experience
they could easily escape back to home
they were thought to be god like
This region had fewer slaves and they mostly worked in their owners homes
North
South
This region had large plantations which required lots of slaves to work
North
South
Whose job was it to watch over the slaves and make sure they were working on the plantation?
plantation owner
slave breaker
overseer
slave ship captain
Once slaves arrived in the Americas they were
sent to loving families
allowed to take a vacation
thrown off the slave ships
sold at auctions
Which describes the living conditions of slaves
they were given anything that they needed
they received lots of food and supplies
they got only the basic supplies to survive
they lived in fully furnished homes
Which describes the working conditions of slaves
They worked from sun up to sun down
they got multiple breaks throughout the day
they started working at age 18
after 60, slaves were allowed to retire
Which describes the methods used to control slaves
They physically punished them
they told the slaves if they listened they could go home
they allowed them to have basic human rights
they use physical and mental ways to control slaves
What was a common way for slaves to rebel
they slowed their work and broke things
they tried to murder their owners
they tried to run away
they tried to fight their masters physically
If a mother was a slave, her child was:
Free for life
A slave for life
A slave for a short time
Free for a short time
Slave codes were
laws to control enslaved people
laws to help free enslaved people
laws that listed the rights of enslaved people
laws that ended the slave trade
The working and living conditions of enslaved people was the worst on sugar plantations in the
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
West Indian Colonies