WorksheetsDL Chapter 20 (Africa and Atlantic Slave Trade)
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
In the context of Portuguese commerce, factories were________.
centers of production
plantations
ports
heavily defended trading posts
El Mina was a ________.
Kongo port
Bantu kingdom
British colony
Portuguese factory
Nzinga Mvemba was ruler of ________.
Benin
Songhay
Kongo
Kilwa
Which of these was a Portuguese factory in what became Angola?
Luanda
Malindi
El Mina
Sofala
The Royal African Company was founded to buy and sell ________.
gold
slaves
rubber
tea
The Spanish Indies piece was a monetary unit, based on the value of ________.
sugar
tobacco
a slave
a ship load of spices
The triangular trade developed across what region?
Mediterranean
Africa
the Americas
Atlantic Ocean
The Asante Empire emerged in ________.
the Gold Coast
the sahel
south Africa
the Kongo region
Osei Tutu was the first to bear the title of ________.
asantehene
Mwene Mutapa
king of Kongo
sultan of Sokoto
Which of these was an important slave trading state that controlled the port of Whydah?
Oyo
Cape Colony
Dahomey
Angola
Usuman Dan Fodio was leader of the ________ peoples.
Yoruba
Zulu
Bantu
Fulani
The Sokoto caliphate was founded following a Muslim revival inspired by ________.
the Almoravids
Sufism
the mfecane
Shi’ism
Which of these was one of the hunting peoples of southern Africa?
Yoruba
Fulani
Khoikhoi
Fon
Which of these groups undertook the Great Trek in the nineteenth century?
Boer
Zulu
Bantu
Nguni
The mfecane can be described as a period marked by ________.
Bantu migrations
state formation
European encroachment
warfare and displacement
Which of these was a south African state that resisted both Zulu expansion and the Zulu model of state formation?
Swazi
Luanda
Lesotho
caliphate of Sokotho
The Middle Passage was ________.
a slave’s capture
the slave’s journey across the Atlantic
the process of enslavement
a slave’s sale in the New World
Saltwater slaves were those ________.
enslaved as a consequence of war
born in Africa
sold in Latin America
intended for domestic labor
Creole slaves were ________.
born in the Americas
of mixed-race parentage
those living as Maroons
skilled laborers
Kente cloth originated in ________ traditions.
Zulu
Yoruba
Asante
Swahili
Obeah was a form of ________ in the Americas.
manumission
African religion
slavery
labor
Palmares was a kingdom formed by ________.
manumitted slaves
mulattos
slaveholders
runaway slaves
Maroons were ________.
saltwater slaves
freed slaves
runaway slaves
slaves of Indian descent
William Wilberforce was a prominent ________.
slave owner
abolitionist
slave trader
freed slave
The last American nation to abolish slavery, in 1888, was ________.
Brazil
the United States
Peru
Haiti
Which of these was arguably the last great development in the Columbian Exchange?
the spread of European diseases
the mfecane
introduction of domestic animals to the Americas
the slave trade
Which of these was the main purpose of factories?
defending farming settlements
producing goods for export
providing a point of commercial exchange
starting points for European penetration of the African interior
The main motive of Portuguese imperialism in Africa was ________.
settlement
trade
conversion
finding markets for Portuguese exports
In the exploration and exploitation of Africa, the ________ were the leaders.
Portuguese
Spanish
Dutch
English
In Table 20.1 on p. 458, “Slave Exports from Africa,” it can be seen that the slave trade peaked in ________.
the trans-Atlantic trade in the 1700s
the trans-Sahara trade in the 1600s
East Africa in the 1800s
the trans-Atlantic in the 1800s
According to Table 20.2 on p. 458, “Estimated Slave Imports,” Brazil imported about ________ of all slaves imported to the Americas between 1519 and 1866.
two-fifths
one-half
one-tenth
three-quarters
The trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trades differed notably in the ________ of the slaves involved.
religion
age
gender
value
The chartering of the Royal African Company was an example of what seventeenth-century development?
demand for spices
abolition
competition for slaves
colonization
The use of the Indies piece in Spanish commerce illustrates the ________.
value of the slave trade
growth of the plantation economy
spread of monetary economies in Africa
slow demise of the slave economy
Which of these was true concerning slavery in Africa in the 1500s and 1600s?
Slavery was an integral part of some nations’ political and eonomic systems.
Slavery in Africa emerged after contact with Europe.
Almost all African slaves sold went to Christian lands.
African nations participated in the slave trade, but used few slaves.
Which of these summarizes the proposed gun-slave cycle?
Imported guns destabilized African states, making some states dependent on the slave trade.
Without guns the slave trade would have disappeared from Africa.
Purchasing guns became more motivating than selling slaves.
Slave-trading states inevitably dominated states that did not trade with Westerners.
The Asante Empire is an example of the link between ________.
state formation and multi-ethnic empires
guns and the slave export trade
the Bantu migration and the slave trade
export crops and dependence on European traders
Looking at the example of Dahomey, it appears that the slave trade ________ in Africa.
was usually economically disastrous
had only short-term impacts
brought some new regimes to power
brought new agricultural technologies
In terms of the slave trade, the sultan of Zanzibar most closely followed the model of ________.
Barbados
Dahomey
Angola
Kongo
The emergence of the Sokoto caliphate is an example of African developments in the 1800s that were ________.
directly caused by the slave trade
the indirect results of the slave trade
the result of Western encroachment
unrelated to Western trading
Which of these longstanding African developments ended in the 1500s?
the spread of Islam in Africa
the Bantu migrations
conversion to Christianity
the spread of farming
Which of these patterns established by Europeans in Africa was broken by the Great Trek?
attempts to spread Christianity
remaining along the African coast
the slave trade
cooperation with African rulers
The mfecane was a movement in southern Africa that was the result of ________.
both internal developments and European pressure
the slave trade
developments internal to Africa
European and Arab commerce
Like the Creole-peninsulare distinction, saltwater and Creole slaves were distinguished by their ________.
place of birth
ethnicity
occupation
status
Candomblé and vodun are examples of ________.
blends of Christian and pagan beliefs
African social networks
the influence of Catholicism on African religion
African traditions that survived in the New World
Palmares and Suriname were both ________.
successful slave revolts
large Maroon communities
successful Maroon states
founded by manumitted slaves
Which of these had perhaps the greatest positive influence on abolition?
the Industrial Revolution
the American Revolution
the Enlightenment
the Romantic movement
Unlike slaves sent to Christian lands, slaves in Muslim lands were much more likely to be ________.
war captives
illiterate
from Muslim African nations
women
Compared to traditional African slavery, slavery in the Americas was ________.
on a larger scale
oppressive
for life
more likely to be in domestic service
Why is the question of whether the slave trade was still vital to European economies so hotly debated?
The question is relevant for understanding the motives for abolition.
It is important to understand if European economies were impacted by abolition.
Historians are interested more in the economic than the human side of abolition.
Good historians always consider both economic and social aspects of any issue.
