WorksheetsSlavery Unit Review
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which of the following was the economic system used to make a profit on slavery? Also known was the Atlantic Slave Trade.
The Euro-African Trade Pact
The Middle Passage
The Triangular Trade
The New World Slavery Treaty
The Triangular Trade began with slave traders going from...
Africa to Americas
Europe to Africa
Americas to Europe
From which part of Africa were most Africans kidnapped for the slave trade?
Northern Coast
Western Coast
Southern Coast
Eastern Coast
Rival African tribes would sell kidnapped Africans and prisoners of war to European slave traders.
True
False
Which of the following did Europeans bring to Africa to trade for enslaved Africans?
Manufactured goods like guns & textiles
Cash crops like cotton & tobacco
Artisan crafts like silks & sculpture
European currency
The part of Triangular Trade when captured Africans were taken to the Americas was...
The Cruel Passage
The Slave Passage
The Middle Passage
The Profit Passage
Which statement is NOT true about conditions on slave ships?
Enslaved people were chained & tightly packed into a ship's hold
Enslaved people would sometimes revolt and take control of the ships
Many died due to disease & starvation
Enslaved people were well fed to appear healthy
The picture shows a slave auction that would happen when slave ships arrived in _____ during Triangular Trade?
Africa
America
Europe
When slave ships arrived in the Americas across the Middle Passage, they traded enslaved Africans for...
Fine luxury goods like silks & spices
Cash crops like cotton & tobacco
Expensive manufactured goods like guns
Valuable manufactured goods like textiles
In the Americas, large ______ used slave labor to grow/produce cash crops (cotton, tobacco, etc.) for profit.
Ranches
Plantations
Estates
Farmsteads
The following picture shows cash crops like cotton and tobacco that would have been traded from...
Europe to Africa
Africa to Americas
Americas to Europe
Triangular Trade shows that ______ was a major reason why slavery existed as long as it did?
Profit
Religion
Politics
Labor
From the animated map, slavery ________ as the United States expanded westward over time.
Decreased in the South
Increased in the South
Increased in the North
Decreased overall
From the animated map, states north of the Ohio River would eventually _____ slavery while states south would_____ it.
End; expand.
Expand; end.
Discourage; expand.
Expand; discourage.
Which of the following would NOT be evidence that profit was the main reason why slavery existed for so long?
Slave Auctions
Runaway Slave Ads
Plantations
Abolitionists
Which of the following was NOT true about children of enslaved families?
Children viewed as property of the slave owner.
Many slave owners didn’t want children to learn to read .
Mothers worked up until birth.
Most children didn't start working in the fields until the age of 18.
The _______ was the white man who supervised enslaved people on the plantation.
Owner
Overseer
Conductor
Abolitionist
Which of the following was NOT true about Field Work?
Work would go on no matter how late until command was given by overseer.
Regular working day was from before sunrise to after sunset.
Enslaved people would be beaten if they didn't meet daily quotas of crops harvested.
The slowest was put the in front row when harvesting crops so others could keep up.
For what reasons would a slave be flogged (whipped/beaten)?
Not working hard/fast enough
Trying to escape
Refusing to work
Simply because his/her master felt like it
Which of the following was NOT true about Domestic Work?
Domestic work meant anything done inside the house.
House slaves would do the cooking, cleaning and caring for the slave-owners children.
Slaves would have work to do in their own quarters as well as owners house.
Slaves were taught that domestic work was less honorable than field work.
Day to day resistance to slavery would've included the following EXCEPT:
Refusing to work
Acting injured
Leading an uprising against slave owners
Pretending not to understand a task
Resistance included hundreds of slave uprisings/rebellions that happened in the U.S. The largest was led by a man named _______ in 1831.
Harriet Tubman
Fredrick Douglas
Nat Turner
Olaudah Equiano
After the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, the surest way for those who escaped slavery to gain freedom was to...
Make it to Canada.
Join maroon communities of runaways.
Join Native American tribes.
Make it to free states in the North.
Those escaping slavery would follow the ______ to freedom.
Mississippi River
North Star
East Coast
Western Star
People who took action to end/get rid of slavery were known as...
Overseers
Abolitionists
Canadians
Christians
The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in ____ by abolitionists to help end slavery.
1807
1833
1842
1855
Which of the following was NOT true about the Underground Railroad?
It was a network of people/hideouts to help slaves escape to freedom.
Conductors would risk their lives to help people escape slavery.
Slave catchers would try to track down escaped slaves.
Most runaways would escape to freedom.
