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Atlantic Slave Trade

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did the Atlantic Slave Trade take place?

a)

10th and 12th centuries

b)

15th and 19th Centuries

c)

3rd and 4th centuries

d)

7th and 9th centuries

2.

About how many Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas?

a)

2 million

b)

5 million

c)

8 million

d)

10 million

3.

What were the 3 main crops of the Americas?

a)

Sugar cane, Tobacco, and Cotton

b)

Cotton, Tobacco, Wheat

c)

Tobacco, Cotton, Vanilla Bean

d)

Cotton, Tobacco, Potatoes

4.

What killed the majority of Native Americans during the beginnings of colonization?

a)

Guns

b)

Slaves

c)

Disease

d)

Famine

5.

African kings sold other African people to the Europeans in exchange for...

a)

Manufactured goods, cotton, and whiskey

b)

Weapons, Drugs, Manufactured goods

c)

Rum, Cotton, Potatoes

d)

Manufactured goods, weapons, and rum

6.

How would African people get to the coastline in order to be boarded onto ships?

a)

Horseback

b)

Train

c)

Marched

d)

Kayak

7.

What percentage of slaves would die on the trip from Africa to the Americas?

a)

5%

b)

10%

c)

15%

d)

20%

8.

What would ship captains do with sick slaves?

a)

Kill them

b)

Throw them overboard

c)

Separate them so they wouldn't infect the other slaves

d)

give them extra food to keep them alive so they could still sell them later

9.

What did many Africans believe to be true about Europeans?

a)

They thought they were demons

b)

They thought they were cannibals

c)

They thought they were gods

d)

They thought they were devils

10.

What did many slaves (on ships) do in order to escape the torture?

a)

Try to run away

b)

Meditate

c)

Take their own lives

11.

About what percent of slaves were taken to North America/United States?

a)

50%

b)

5%

c)

27%

d)

77%

12.

Slavery was happening around the world thousands of years before the "Atlantic Slave Trade."

a)

True

b)

False

13.

What was the average life expectancy of a Brazilian Slave?

a)

62 years

b)

47 years

c)

39 years

d)

23 years