Unit 8

Question 1

Enslaved africans

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Delemma’s

Answer 2

Situations in which a person is forced to make a choice even though there is no good choice to make for example millions of enslaved Africans had to choose between dying on a voyage to America or working the rest of their lives as slaves.

Question 3

Middle passage

Answer 3

The voyage / passage of slave traders and enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to America.

Question 4

Plantation

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Americas

Answer 5

The continents of north and South America connected by Central America along with nearby islands trike those in the Caribbean Sea.

Question 6

Slave auctions

Answer 6

A sale in which slaves were sold to buyers who bid fo4 them usually a slave was sold to the highest bidder.

Question 7

Overseer

Answer 7

A person who was put in charge of the work of slaves the overseer had great power over the slaves and could punish them for disobeying him.