Lesson 8 Test Review: Slavery in the Americas

What is a public sale where slaves were sold to the highest bidder called?

• slave trade

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

• slave auction

What is capturing, transporting, and selling people called?

• slave auction

• slave trade

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

What is the exchange of goods and slaves between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa called?

• slave trade

• slave auction

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

What is a person called who is in charge of the work of slaves?

• auctioneer

• trader

• overseer

• owner

What was the name of the voyage of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean?

• Third Passage

• Second Passage

• First Passage

• Middle Passage

Which of these statements 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 reaction did West Africans have to the slave trade?

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

• Some West Africans tried to find slaves outside their nations.

• Some West Africans traded people who were already enslaved or convicted of a crime.

• 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.