Study Guide: Columbian/Triangular/Slavery

Enslaved people were usually.....

• indentured servants

• forced to work without pay

• were not permitted to speak English

• found in the West Indies

Native Americans used this to help hunt buffalo; they were introduced by Europeans to the new world.

• guns

• bows and arrows

• horses

• swords

In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?

• 1861

• 1834

• 1863

• 1836

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

• a law that ended slavery in the US

• a document that provided rights to enslaved people

• a document enslaved people signed

• an owner's duties to any enslaved people they owned

These large farms were located in the southern colonies:

• colonies

• settlements

• agricultural centers

• plantations

TRUE or FALSE: The Middle Passage was a part of the Columbian Exchange that included trading goods and ideas between the Old and New worlds.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Native Americans made important decisions that were agreed upon with these:

• tobacco

• the three sisters

• blood oaths

• maize

TRUE or FALSE: The written language of the Native Americans eventually resembled the alphabet of the Europeans.

• TRUE

• FALSE

This system of trade was important because it represented good and ideas being exchanged between the New and Old worlds:

• The Silk Road

• The Northwest Passage

• The Middle Passage

• The Columbian Exchange

The Great Dying was a name given to what event?

• Massive deaths of Native Americans from disease

• Massive death of Europeans who contracted disease from Africa

• Massive death of Africans as they were taken as slaves

• Massive death of Irish people from the Potato Famine