British Empire

Question 1

Empire

Answer 1

A group of countries ruled over by a single monarch of ruling power

Question 2

Why did Britain have empires

Answer 2

• to conquer and gain territories
• to create trade links
• to loot items that they didn’t have

Question 3

Trade triangle

Answer 3

1) manufactured good left ports from Liverpool and Bristol
2) boats filled with goods sailed to west Africa and was exchanged for slaves
3) the boat filled with slaves traveled across the middle passage through America
4) once departed slaves were sold at auction

• a trade route that made up the Atlantic slave trade

Question 4

Why was slave trade abolished

Answer 4

• actions of black complainers
• actions of other campaigners
• economics

Question 5

Actions of black campaigners

Answer 5

• olaudah equiana become a key figure abolitionist movement
• he bought off his freedom and returned to England
• he wrote a book about his experience and was read widely amung other people

Question 6

Actions of other campaigners

Answer 6

• granville sharp was a abolitionist who helped to secure the freedom of many enslaved people in Britain
• he fought many cases in court wich started succeful movements against slave trade
• he was the member of parliament which helped him bring his opinion about the slave trade

Question 7

Economics

Answer 7

• the economic benefit of the slave trade jad begun to slow in Britain since the 19th century
• keeping and maintains slaves were far more expensive for plantation owners then paying workers small wages,

Question 8

When was the slave trade abolished

Answer 8

Slave trade = 1807
Slavery = 1833