Social Studies Lesson 8 Review game

A public sale where people who were enslaved were sold to the highest bidder is called a(n) ____________.

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• enslaver

• auction

__________________

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

• Middle Passage

• triangular trade

• enslaver

• auction

A(n) _________________

was a person who was in charge of the work of enslaved people and who could punish them for disobeying him.

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• enslaver

• auction

The __________________

is the voyage of ships carrying people who had been enslaved across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Middle Passage

• overseer

• enslaver

• auction

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

• overseer

• lumber

• all of the above

What choice did West Africans make about enslaving and trading people?

• West Africans refused to take part in this trade.

• 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 people enslaved in the West Indies and British North America forced to work?

• gold and silver mines

• household kitchens

• grain and textile mills

• sugar and tobacco plantations

On ships in the Middle Passage, people who were enslaved

_______________

• had a lot of living space.

• were able to move freely.

• developed many serious illnesses.

• revolted successfully frequently.

When Africans who had been captured and enslaved 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.