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WorksheetsAtlantic Slave Trade
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
When did the Atlantic Slave Trade take place?
10th and 12th centuries
15th and 19th Centuries
3rd and 4th centuries
7th and 9th centuries
About how many Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas?
2 million
5 million
8 million
10 million
What were the 3 main crops of the Americas?
Sugar cane, Tobacco, and Cotton
Cotton, Tobacco, Wheat
Tobacco, Cotton, Vanilla Bean
Cotton, Tobacco, Potatoes
What killed the majority of Native Americans during the beginnings of colonization?
Guns
Slaves
Disease
Famine
African kings sold other African people to the Europeans in exchange for...
Manufactured goods, cotton, and whiskey
Weapons, Drugs, Manufactured goods
Rum, Cotton, Potatoes
Manufactured goods, weapons, and rum
How would African people get to the coastline in order to be boarded onto ships?
Horseback
Train
Marched
Kayak
What percentage of slaves would die on the trip from Africa to the Americas?
5%
10%
15%
20%
What would ship captains do with sick slaves?
Kill them
Throw them overboard
Separate them so they wouldn't infect the other slaves
give them extra food to keep them alive so they could still sell them later
What did many Africans believe to be true about Europeans?
They thought they were demons
They thought they were cannibals
They thought they were gods
They thought they were devils
What did many slaves (on ships) do in order to escape the torture?
Try to run away
Meditate
Take their own lives
About what percent of slaves were taken to North America/United States?
50%
5%
27%
77%
Slavery was happening around the world thousands of years before the "Atlantic Slave Trade."
True
False
What was the average life expectancy of a Brazilian Slave?
62 years
47 years
39 years
23 years
