Week 5 Pre-Quiz

Which of the following contributed most to the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade during the 1700s?

• A lack of skilled labor in the American colonies
• Demand for slaves in the American colonies that produced cash crops
• A lack of protective tariffs in the American colonies
• Demand for slaves in the industrialized American colonies

Which of the following was a major reason for the flow of the transatlantic slave trade shown on the map?

• The economic demands of the plantation system
• The construction needs of the railroad
• Increased textile manufacturing
• Increased western migration

Which factor most encouraged the growth of this trade?

• The invention of the steam engine
• The profitability of cash-crop agriculture
• The development of the factory system
• The establishment of protective tariffs

farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced

• subsistence farming
• plantation farming
• cash crop farming
• sharecropping

Crops grown in large amounts to be sold for profit

• subsistence farming
• sharecropping
• cash crops
• organic farming

A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa

• democratic
• train routes
• Manifest Destiny
• triangular trade

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.

• Slave Codes
• Democracy
• Freedom of Religion
• Control Laws

the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

• Mercantilism
• Middle Passage
• Exports
• Slave Codes

The portion of triangular trade that brought slaves across the atlantic was called

• trail of tears
• The death trail
• The final passage
• the Middle passage

Slaves were mainly brought to which colonial region?

• New England
• Southern
• Middle