TCI Chapter 8

Public sale where slaves were sold to the highest bidder

• overseer

• slave auction

• slave trade

• triangular trade

Capturing, transporting, and selling people is called

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• slave auction

• slave trade

Exchange of goods and slaves between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa

• overseer

• slave auction

• Middle Passage

• triangular trade

Person in charge of the work of slaves

• overseer

• salve auction

• salve trade

• triangular trade

Voyage of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean

• Middle Passage

• triangular trade

• overseer

• slave trade

Europeans offer to trade to the people of West Africa in exchange for

• guns

• overseers

• lumber

• all of the above

Which was true of West Africans in the 1500s ?

• The spoke the same language

• They were long-distance travelers

• They were captured and enslaved

• They valued family and ancestors

What choice did West Africans make about the slave trade?

• They refused to take part in the slave trade

• They tried to find slaves outside their nations

• They traded people who were already enslaved

• All of the above

Most slaves in the West Indies and British North America were put to work in

• gold and silver mines

• household kitchens

• grain and textile mills

• sugar and tobacco plantations

Slaves on a slave ship in the Middle Passage experienced a lot of

• living space

• daily exercise

• serious illness

• successful revolts