Transatlantic Slave Trade keywords

Question 1

when people are owned by other people; a slave must work for their owner, doing whatever their told with no pay or freedom

Answer 1

Slavery

Question 2

three-legged route (shaped like a triangle on a map) that made up the Transatlantic Slave Trade; included Europe, Africa and the Americas

Answer 2

Triangular Trade

Question 3

the sea journey, across the Atlantic Ocean, taken by enslaved people from West Africa to the Americas; part of the Slave Trade

Answer 3

Middle passage

Question 4

a public sale where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder; Slave Trade auctions involved the sale of enslaved people

Answer 4

Auction

Question 5

estates on which tobacco and cotton and other products are grown (the manager of plantation is known as a planter)

Answer 5

Plantations

Question 6

the refusal to accept or comply with something; either actively (using violent methods) or passively (using peaceful methods)

Answer 6

Resistance

Question 7

to bring something to an end, so it no longer exists (‘to abolish’)

Answer 7

Abolition

Question 8

murdering someone for supposed crime without trial, usually by hanging

Answer 8

Lynching

Question 9

a farmer labourer (worker); this was the job of most enslaved people on plantations in the Americas during the Slave Trade

Answer 9

Fieldhand

Question 10

a system of moving (transporting) goods or people from one place to another; happened on boats and ships during the Slave Trade

Answer 10

Transportation

Question 11

crossing the Atlantic Ocean; boats and ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean all three routes within the ‘Triangular Trade’ system

Answer 11

Transatlantic

Question 12

the capture, transportation, buying and selling of enslaved people for work and profit, e.g. the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Answer 12

Slave Trade