Transatlantic Slave Trade

Thy trip across the Atlantic Ocean is known as

• The Middle Passage

• The Halfway Passage

• The Long Passage

• The Endless Passage

Where did the least amount of slaves go to?

• The Caribbean

• Brazil

• Costa Rica

• America

Where were most captured slaves taken?

• The Caribbean

• America

• Brazil

• Canada

What was the middle passage?

• a nice trip on a boat to relax.

• A trip across the Atlantic by boat to get to America and dig for gold.

• The trip on boat that slaves had to endure to get across the Atlantic ocean and into America.

• A trip on a boat that travelers took to get to America and explore.

What kind of people were taken as slaves?

• The wise and elderly

• Pregnant women

• Strong and young men and women

• The sick and disabled

Why was the middle passage so hard and horrible? Choose the best answer

• The smell -people would vomit and use the bathroom where they were standing and it would never get cleaned up.

• The slaves were barely fed food.

• There was barely enough space to turn around.

• all of the above

The majority of slaves that were brought to the American colonies were brought to...

• Work on plantations

• Work on the railroad

• Work building houses

• Work building ships

What continents did the Atlantic Slave Trade include?

• North America, South America, and Brazil

• North America, South America, Europe, and Africa

• North America, Europe, and Africa

• South America, Asia, and Europe

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When did the Atlantic Slave Trade begin?

• 1400s

• 1500s

• 1600s

• 1700s

What were the new crops grown in the colonies that demanded slave labor?

• sugar cane, cotton, tabacco

• sugar, cotton, wheat

• cotton, wheat, corn