Africa and The Transatlantic Slave Trade

What is considered the ancestral homeland of most African Americans?

• South Africa

• South Asia

• West Africa

• North Africa

Africa is the largest continent in the world.

• True

• False

Africans lived in village and clans called...

• lineages

• Saharan Deserts

• the Middle Passage

• homelands

In a Nuclear family, the husband had many wives.

• True

• False

_______ had great power and over the economic and social lives of their members

• Women

• Elders

• Warriors

• Children

A line of slave driven fastened and driven together was known as a ...

(a)  

Once captives reached the coast, they were kept in fortified structures called (a)  

What are slavers?

• people who owned slaves

• Ashanti warriors

• people who tried to help free slaves

• ships used to transport slaves from Africa to the Americas

Captives often resisted their captors by...

Hint: Read all of your answer choices

• drowning themselves

• starving themselves

• hanging themselves

• drowning and starving themselves

Christians and Muslims often used religion as a moral justification for slavery.

• True

• False