SS chapter 8

Question 1

Enslaved Africans

Answer 1

People from Africa who were forced to give up their freedom and spend their live obeying and working for their owners.

Question 2

Dilemma

Answer 2

Situations 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 of slave traders and enslaved Africans across the Atlantic ocean from Africa to the Americans.

Question 4

Plantations

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Americas

Answer 5

The continents of north and south American along with nearby islands like those in the Caribbean Sea.

Question 6

Slave actions

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Overseer

Answer 7

A person who was put in charge of the work of slaves. Overseer had a great power over the slaves and could punish some of disobeying him.