KO1 - British and Transatlantic Slave Trade

Question 1

How did slavery help Britain to get rich?

Answer 1

People took one journey and this meant that the got 4000 pounds which would mean they would be set for life to buy a house that is very large. This mean that if each person did that journey that everyone in the county would be very rich.

Question 2

What evidence is there to help us study the slave trade?

Answer 2

To study the slave trade you could use the evidence of Biographies such as Olaudah Equiano. They could use Parliamentary Archives.

Question 3

What part did Britain play in the transatlantic slave trade?

Answer 3

From 1660, the British Crown passed various acts and granted charters to enable companies to settle,
administer and exploit British interests on the West Coast of Africa and to supply slaves to the American colonies. The African companies were granted a monopoly to trade in slaves.

Question 4

12-15 million

Answer 4

The amount to Africans that were taken across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americans and West Indies, where they were used as slaves.

Question 5

1776

Answer 5

By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence.

Question 6

16th- 17th Century

Answer 6

Transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.

Question 7

3 250 000

Answer 7

The numbers of Africans directly transported by Britain.

Question 8

Foster Cunliffe

Answer 8

Made his money from being the main slave trader in Liverpool.

Question 9

Mersey

Answer 9

A river that many ships from Liverpool, with 1.5 million Africans travelled through.

Question 10

Bryan Blundell

Answer 10

One of the most important successful merchants.
Twice Mayor of Liverpool

Question 11

Liverpool

Answer 11

Between 1700 and 1807 ships from Liverpool carried about 1.5 Slaves here.

Question 12

Plantation

Answer 12

A large farm or estate where one main crop is grown.

Question 13

Thirteen Colonies

Answer 13

They were a group of colonies of Great Britain on the Atlantic coast of America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries which declared independence in 177 grand formed the United States of America.

Question 14

Transatlantic

Answer 14

Anything that crosses the Atlantic Ocean is called transatlantic.

Question 15

Port

Answer 15

A place where a ship would go when it arrived at a country to trade with the people in the county, they would trade and then leave that place.