Social studies unit 8

Question 1

Enslaved Africans

Answer 1

People from Africa who were forced to give up their freedom and spend their lives obeying their owners or masters. Enslaved Africans were treated as property that could be sold.

Question 2

Dilemma

Answer 2

Situations in witch a person has to make a choice, even though there are no good choices to make. For example, millions of enslaved Africans had to choose between dying on the voyage to America or work the rest of their lives as slaves.

Question 3

Middle passage

Answer 3

The voyage (“passage“) of slaves and traders and enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas.

Question 4

Plantations

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Americas

Answer 5

The continents of North and South America (connected by Central America), along by near by islands, like those in the Caribbean Sea.

Question 6

Slaves auction

Answer 6

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