Triangle Trade and Slavery Check in Quiz

What was the part of the Triangle Trade route that brought enslaved people West called?

• The Southern Route

• The Middle Passage

• The Deadly Journey

• The Atlantic Crossing

Which is TRUE about Indentured Servants?

• They were always men and most of them worked as skilled laborers in cities

• They were all kidnapped from Africa and brought to the Colonies by the Spanish

• They could be male or female and typically served for 5-10 years

• They had to pay their passage to the Colonies and then were able to get land out west at no cost

Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the experience of enslaved people's experience on slave ships?

• Many of them died before they reached the Americas

• They were branded and put in shackles

• Up to 400 people were crammed on ships with 5 feet of headroom

• Most of the enslaved people were cannibals and had been captured by neighboring tribes

In the map above the items that were traded for arrow A (red) were

• Manufactured goods

• Raw materials

• Sugar, Molasses and Slaves

• Slaves

In the map above the items that were traded for arrow B (Blue) were

• Manufactured goods

• Raw materials

• Sugar, Molasses and Slaves

• Slaves

In the map above the items that were traded for arrow C (green)

• Manufactured goods

• Raw materials

• Sugar, Molasses and Slaves

• Slaves

In the map above the items that were traded for arrow D (orange) were

• Manufactured goods

• Raw materials

• Sugar, Molasses and Slaves

• Slaves

Which is TRUE slavery in the early colonial period?

• Enslaved people always worked on large plantations in the fields up until the 1700's

• All the enslaved people came from Africa through the West Indies before 1808

• Only men were enslaved and women and children could live on plantation with their families in the 1600's

• by 1690 slavery status changed and became based on race and past down through generations

Who was Olaudah Equiano?

• A former slave who gained his freedom and wrote a narrative about his experience on a slave ship

• A former indentured servant who led a revolt against the government of Jamestown

• An African leader who tried to stop the Portuguese from trading slaves in Europe

• A Native American leader who hoped to get his land back from slave-owners

In the mid 1600's, what changed concerning labor in the colonies?

• More indentured servants came so there were less slaves.

• Northern colonies like Massachusetts outlawed slavery.

• Slave labor began replacing indentured labor, especially in the South.

• Laws were changed so that all slaves who became Christians would be freed.