Slavery in the Americas

Question 1

Throughout West Africa, society was based on…

Answer 1

family

Question 2

One thing that is true about West Africans in the 1500s is that they valued…

Answer 2

family and ancestors

Question 3

Ways West Africans were different from each other…

Answer 3

• Some lived in small villages, and some lived in large cities.
• Some villages were part of empires, and others were not.
• West Africans often spoke different languages from each other.

Question 4

Europeans offered to trade ______________ to the people of West Africa.

Answer 4

guns

Question 5

Beginning in the 1400s, many West African leaders participated in the slave trade by…

Answer 5

exchanging people for goods

Question 6

West African groups would often _____________ other West African groups to get slaves outside their nation.

Answer 6

raid

Question 7

If a West African king refused to take part in the slave trade with Europeans their people were _____________ and sold as ____________.

Answer 7

People were CAPTURED and sold as SLAVES

Question 8

Three choices that West Africans made about slave trade…

Answer 8

1) West Africans refused to take part in the slave trade.
2) West Africans tried to find slaves outside their nations.
3) West Africans traded people who were already enslaved.

Question 9

The triangular trade is the exchange of goods and slaves between ______________, the Americans, and __________________________.

Answer 9

The triangular trade is the exchange of goods and slaves between EUROPE, the Americans, and WEST AFRICA.

Question 10

The voyage of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean is called the…

Answer 10

Middle Passage

Question 11

During the journey to the American colonies, slaves were often chained together without room to sit, so crammed they could barely move, AND they often had ____________ from lying on the floorboards.

Answer 11

During the journey to the American colonies, slaves were often chained together without room to sit, so crammed they could barely move, AND they often had SORES from lying on the floorboards.

Question 12

There was a lot of ____________________________ on slave ships during the Middle Passage.

Answer 12

serious illness

Question 13

The white men would try to prevent slaves from killing themselves because they knew that losing slaves meant __________________________________.

Answer 13

losing money

Question 14

When Africans captured in the slave trade arrived in the American colonies, they were first _____________________ or slave auctions.

Answer 14

sold at scrambles

Question 15

Most of the slaves in West Indies and British North America were put to work on _________________________ plantations.

Answer 15

sugar and tobacco

Question 16

The person who supervised the work of slaves was called the ___________________________.

Answer 16

overseer

Question 17

When slaves would pretend not to understand what they were being told to do it was a form of __________________.

Answer 17

resistance

Question 18

In general, ________________________ had the hardest life.

Answer 18

field workers

Question 19

To cope with their hard life, many slaves would sing ________________________ as they worked in the field.

Answer 19

spirituals

Question 20

European traders affected slavery in West Africa because they traded _____________ for ______________ to work on plantations.

Answer 20

European traders affected slavery in West Africa because they traded GOODS for SLAVES to work on plantations.

Question 21

A slave auction is a _____________________ where slaves were sold to the highest bidder.

Answer 21

public sale

Question 22

On a plantation, most slaves ______________________ crops

Answer 22

planted and picked

Question 23

One reason slaves would have a hard time their first year on a plantation was because they were shouted at in an __________________________________________.

Answer 23

unfamiliar language

Question 24

To try to escape the plantations, slaves would away and hide in the ________________.

Answer 24

woods

Question 25

The slave trade is ____________________, _____________________, and _________________ people.

Answer 25

The slave trade is CAPTURING, TRANSPORTING, and SELLING people.