Vocabulary for Unit 8

Question 1

Enslaved Africans

Answer 1

People from Africa who were forced to give up their freedom and spend their live obeying and taking orders from their owners or masters.

Question 2

dilemma

Answer 2

Situation 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 the voyage to America or work as slave for the rest of there lives.

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

Plantations

Answer 4

A are you sure you are large area of privately on 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 with nearby island, like those in the Caribbean Island.

Question 6

Slave auctions

Answer 6

A sale in which slaves were sold to buyer who bid.