Ch 8 vocab

Question 1

Enslaved Africans

Answer 1

People from Africa, who are forced to give up their freedom, and spend their lives obeying in working for their “owners” or masters. Enslaved Africans were threatened as property, that could be bought and or sold

Question 2

Dilemma

Answer 2

Situation in which a person is forced to make a choice, even though there is no good choice to make.

Question 3

Middle passage

Answer 3

The voyage (“passage”) of slave traders, and enslaved Africans across the Atlantic ocean from Africa to the Americas.

Question 4

Plantations

Answer 4

Are usually large area of privately owned land, where crops were grown with labor of workers or slaves, who lived in the land.

Question 5

Americas

Answer 5

The continent of north, and South America connected by Central America, along with nearby islands, like those in the Caribbean Sea.

Question 6

Slave auctions

Answer 6

A sale in which slaves were sold to buyers who bid (offered prices) for them . Usually a slave was sold to the person making the highest bid.

Question 7

Overseer

Answer 7

A person who is put in charge of the work of slaves. The overseer had a great power of over the slaves and could punish them at for any time for disobeying them.