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Vocabulary The Slave Trade and Abolition

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 17mins

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Class
Date
1.

The best-known is the transatlantic slave trade that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, American colonies, and the European colonial powers.

a)

authority constitutionally

b)

enforced labor

c)

system

d)

abolitionist

e)

triangular slave trade

2.

A person who believed in and often fought for the end of slavery.

a)

abolitionist

b)

abolition

c)

enforced labor

d)

slave

e)

enterprising

3.

A set of things working together as parts of a whole or an interconnecting network, like the slavery system in the United States.

a)

triangular slave trade

b)

slavery

c)

system

d)

underground railroad

4.

A large field that is used to grow crops, like tobacco, cotton, and sugar.

a)

crops

b)

farmers

c)

system

d)

slavery

e)

plantation

5.

Who is this?

a)

W.E.B Douglass

b)

Frederick DuBois

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

W.E.B DuBois

6.

Also known as racism; discrimination based on race that affects the opportunities an individual can get.

a)

racism

b)

scourge

c)

racial equality

d)

slavery

e)

racial inequality

7.

related to or based in the household

a)

domestic

b)

institution

c)

affliction

d)

interpose

e)

repudiate

8.

building

a)

house

b)

school

c)

post office

d)

edifice

e)

lauded

9.

banning of slavery

a)

abolitionist

b)

slave trade

c)

abolition

d)

triangular slave trade

e)

system

10.

able to be charged with a crime

a)

lauded dogma

b)

authority constitutionally

c)

liable to indictment

d)

legally

e)

natural increase

11.

to refuse to accept or continue with something

a)

repudiate

b)

dominate

c)

enterprising

d)

internal

e)

affliction

12.

This slaves back was

a)

domestic

b)

moderate

c)

elated

d)

scourged

e)

interposed

13.

able to think of and carry out new ideas

a)

constitutionally

b)

enterprising

c)

internal

d)

lauded dogma

e)

industry

14.

No! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm, but urge me not to use _____ in a cause like the present

a)

slavery

b)

immigrants

c)

moderation

d)

economy

e)

affliction

15.

Each wants to _____the government in Washington. But as long as Congress is evenly divided between slave states and free states, there is some stability.

a)

moderate

b)

repudiate

c)

abolish

d)

dominate

e)

interpose

16.

The Southern leaders don't seem to understand. _____ and ideas and inventions are beginning to change the North. The South will be left out of much of that excitement.

a)

Industry

b)

Immigrants

c)

Slavery

d)

Abolition

e)

Enforced labor

17.

But ending the international slave trade doesn't put an end to slavery itself, which continues to grow by _____ _____. And within the South a major internal slave trade develops.

a)

lauded dogma

b)

natural increase

c)

authority constitutionally

d)

liable to indictment

e)

unoffending inhabitants of Africa

18.

something that causes pain or suffering

a)

interpose

b)

institution

c)

abolition

d)

affliction

e)

industry

19.

Therefore, any free person who shall teach any slave to read and write shall be _____________. If any slave shall teach, or attempt to teach, any other slave, he or she shall receive thirty-nine lashes on his or her bare back.”

a)

unoffending inhabitants of Africa

b)

constitutionally

c)

liable to indictment

d)

legally

e)

racial inequality

20.

when a population grows because more people are born

a)

moderation

b)

abolition

c)

abolitionist

d)

natural increase

21.

Which vocabulary word does this picture best support?

a)

elated

b)

durable

c)

triangular slave trade

d)

liable to indictment

22.

Robert Walsh was an _____ of a slave ship in action. He wrote: “The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways, between decks. The space was so low they sat between each other’s legs …

a)

owner

b)

slave driver

c)

eyewitness

d)

overseer

23.

The teaching of slaves has a tendency to ____ dissatisfaction in their minds.

a)

interpose

b)

enforced labor

c)

abolish

d)

excite

24.

The last parting sounds we heard from the unhallowed ship were the cries and shrieks of the slaves, suffering under some bodily _____.

a)

affliction

b)

abolish

c)

scourge

d)

authority constitutionally

25.

the system by which a country’s money and goods are made and used

a)

economy

b)

profitable

c)

prevail

d)

international

26.

firm beliefs that are praised

a)

lauded dogma

b)

enforced labor

c)

triangular slave trade

d)

profitable

e)

racial inequality

27.

lasting

a)

durable

b)

internal

c)

interpose

d)

elated

e)

legally

28.

within a region

a)

internal

b)

abolition

c)

immigrant

d)

durable

e)

excite

29.

Africans that do not cause problems

a)

immigrants

b)

unoffending inhabitants of Africa

c)

lauded dogma

d)

eyewitness

e)

triangular slave trade

30.

very happy

a)

elated

b)

prevail

c)

interpose

d)

sourge

e)

edifice

31.

by law

a)

slavery

b)

economy

c)

legally

d)

elated

e)

moderation

32.

to put yourself between two things

a)

enforced labor

b)

international

c)

interpose

d)

profitable

e)

industry

33.

an idea that is successful in the end

a)

edifice

b)

moderation

c)

prevail

d)

interpose

e)

industry

34.

involving more than one country

a)

international

b)

economy

c)

system

d)

abolition

e)

enterprising