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Slave Trade Compromise

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Slaves were transported from where during the Triangular Slave Trade?

a)

Africa to North and South America

b)

Asia to North and South America

c)

Europe to Africa

d)

Africa to South Carolina

2.

How did slaves travel to different continents

a)

cars

b)

horse

c)

ships

d)

wagons

3.

What were the conditions like for slaves on their trip?

a)

Very good because there room to move and there was food to eat and beds to sleep on

b)

Terrible because they were crammed together in small spaces and many of them died

c)

Slaves didn't travel on ships

d)

Warm and cozy

4.

How did Southern Colonists feel about slavery?

a)

They felt it should be abolished

b)

They relied on slaves for their crops and plantations

c)

They didn't care about slaves

5.

How did Northerners and other colonists feel about slavery?

a)

They hated slavery and wanted it to be abolished

b)

They relied on it

c)

They loved slavery

d)

They didn't care

6.

What led to the Slave Trade Compromise?

a)

The disputes between Southerners and Northerners about slavery

b)

The complications of trading slaves between countries

c)

The fighting of slaves and their owners

7.

What did the Slave Trade Compromise give the Federal Government?

a)

authority over commerce

b)

paper

c)

slaves

d)

authority over the president

8.

What did the Slave Trade Compromise do? (Select all the apply)

a)

made it so commerce could not prohibit the slave trade until 1808

b)

made it so the importation of slaves could be taxed

c)

nothing

d)

abolished slavery

9.

True or False? Slaves were free and they only worked on plantations to make money

a)

False

b)

True

10.

True or False? The Slave Trade Compromise settled the problem of Commerce relating to the slave trade.

a)

False

b)

True

c)

What even was the slave trade compromise?