Story of the World: III Chapter 36 Test: The Slave Trade Ends

_______ were men and women who wanted to make slavery illegal.

• astronauts

• abolitionist

• acupuncturist

In England, a religious group called the ______ had insisted that slavery should be illegal for a long time.

• Quakers

• Jacobites

• Luddites

Southerners in the United States needed slaves to work in their ______ and _____ fields.

• chocolate, coffee

• sugar, cotton

• cotton, tobacco

_____ asked the British Parliament to outlaw the slave trade, no matter what the cost.

• William Wilberforce

• William Shakespeare

• William the Conqueror

Why did the British Parliament refuse to make slavery illegal?

• Landowners said that they could not survive without slaves.

• No one believed the stories about how horrible slavery was.

• English merchant ships made too much money selling slaves.

• all of the above

What had to happen before slavery would become illegal?

• The slave trade had to be outlawed.

• Southerners had to find a new crop.

• Northerners had to find new workers for their factories.

• all of the above

What happened to many British planters when slavery was outlawed?

• They hired factory workers to work on their farms instead.

• They moved to India to start plantations there.

• They went bankrupt.

• They moved to the cities and began working in the factories.

After slavery was outlawed, the British began to buy goods such as sugar, cotton, and tobacco from _______.

• India

• China

• the United States

• South America

Former slaves published stories of their lives to tell people about the plight of the

slaves.

• True

• False

The United States was the first country to pass a law that made it illegal to buy

slaves in Africa and then sell them in other countries.

• True

• False