Lesson 8- Slavery in the Americas Test- custom

A public sale where enslaved people were sold to the highest bidder is called an _______

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• auction

• triangular trade

The ______ ___ is the exchange of goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa.

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• auction

• triangular trade

An ______ was a person in charge of the work of enslaved people.

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• auction

• triangular trade

The _____ ______ is the voyage of ships carrying enslaved people across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• auction

• triangular trade

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

What choice did West Africans make about the trade of enslaved people?

• West Africans refused to take part in the trade of enslaved people.

• West Africans tried to find enslaved people outside their nations.

• West Africans traded people who were already enslaved.

• All of the above.

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

• gold and silver mines

• household kitchens

• grain and textile plantations

• sugar and tobacco plantations

Enslaved people on a ship in the middle Passage had a lot of

• living space.

• daily exercise.

• serious illness.

• successful revolts.

When Africans captured in the trade of enslaved people arrived in the American Colonies, they were first

• reunited with family members.

• sold at scrambles or auctions.

• given a full medical examination.

• taught English so they could follow orders.