Unit 3, Lesson 8: Slavery in the Americas

A public sale where slaves were sold to the highest bidder is called a(n) ____________________.

• slave trade

• triangular trade

• slave auction

• overseer

Capturing, transporting, and selling people is called the ____________________.

• slave trade

• Middle Passage

• triangular trade

• slave auction

The ____________________ is the exchange of goods and slaves between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa.

• overseer

• Middle Passage

• slave auction

• triangular trade

A(n) ____________________ was a person in charge of the work of slaves.

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• slave trade

• slave auction

The ____________________ is the voyage of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean.

• slave auction

• triangular trade

• slave trade

• Middle Passage

Which of these was true of most West Africans in the 1500s?

• They spoke the same language.

• They were long-distance traders.

• They were captured and enslaved.

• They valued family and ancestors.

What did Europeans offer to trade to the people of West Africa?

• guns

• overseers

• lumber

• all of the above

What choice did West Africans make about the slave trade?

• West Africans refused to take part in the slave trade.

• West Africans tried to find slaves outside their nations.

• West Africans traded people who were already enslaved.

• all of the above

Where were most slaves in the West Indies and British North America put to work?

• gold and silver mines

• household kitchens

• grain and textile mills

• sugar and tobacco plantations

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

• living space.

• daily exercise.

• serious illness.

• successful revolts.