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WorksheetsColumbian Exchange and Slavery
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 21mins
What are three foods that were brought to Europe, Africa, and Asia from the Americas by the Columbian Exchange?
Rice, wheat, and barley
Turkey, peanuts, and cacao
Apples, oranges, and bananas
Beef, pork, and chicken
What animal was brought to the Americas from Europe?
Elephants
Horses
Dogs
Fish
Who did Spanish colonists use at first to work on plantations in the Americas?
African slaves
European settlers
Indigenous people
Asian immigrants
Why did it become difficult for plantation owners in places like the Caribbean to use Indigenous people for cheap labor?
They were too expensive
They refused to work
Disease and war had killed too many of them
They moved to Europe
How did the first Africans arrive in the English North American colonies?
As free settlers
By Dutch pirates trading them for food
As hired workers
As explorers
What were the components of the trading triangle that existed among Europe, Africa, and North America beginning in the mid-1600s CE?
Gold, silver, and spices
Iron products, enslaved Africans, and raw materials
Silk, tea, and porcelain
Oil, coal, and machinery
About what percentage of enslaved Africans did not survive the Middle Passage?
5 percent
10 percent
15 percent
20 percent
What adjectives would you use to describe the experience of the Middle Passage?
Comfortable, safe, pleasant
Crowded, inhumane, dangerous
Luxurious, enjoyable, relaxing
Quiet, peaceful, calm
What happened to enslaved Africans who survived the Middle Passage?
They were freed
They were sent to plantations in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the English colonies in North America
They returned to Africa
They became merchants
True or false: slavery was only found in the Southern colonies.
True
False
Why was slavery more common in the South than in the Northeast?
The Northeast had more factories
The Northeast soil was not suitable for large plantations
The South had more cities
The South had fewer people
What changed that made enslaved labor more profitable and efficient than the use of indentured servants?
Indentured servants began living longer and costing more.
Enslaved labor was less efficient.
Indentured servants were cheaper.
Enslaved labor was less profitable.
What work did enslaved people do on plantations?
They worked in fields, chopped wood, built fences, cleared roads, dug wells, cooked, and cleaned.
They only worked in fields.
They only cooked and cleaned.
They only built fences and cleared roads.
What happened to families of enslaved people?
Families were commonly broken up, and family members were separated from one another.
Families stayed together.
Families were only separated temporarily.
Families were never separated.
Why was it easy for owners to mistreat enslaved people without consequences?
Enslaved people could not testify in court or leave the plantation without permission.
Enslaved people could easily testify in court.
Owners were always punished for mistreatment.
Enslaved people had many rights.
What might have been the reason it was illegal to teach enslaved people to read or write?
If enslaved people could read or write, they could communicate and find ways to become free or organize.
It was not illegal to teach them.
They were already literate.
Reading and writing were not useful skills.
In the Kingdom of Kongo, what were the merchants taking?
The merchants were taking the natives of Kongo, or people from the Kingdom of Kongo.
The merchants were taking goods.
The merchants were taking animals.
The merchants were taking crops.
Why were people of the Kingdom of Kongo itself kidnapping their own people?
The kidnappers had a huge desire to obtain Portuguese goods, or “the wares and things of your Kingdoms.”
They wanted to reduce the population.
They needed more workers.
They were forced by other kingdoms.
What did the Europeans bring to the Americas that most likely made it easier to conquer the
Indigenous peoples?
honeybees
disease
grains
livestock
Who did the Spanish first enslave to work on their plantations?
Africans
Portuguese
Indigenous peoples
British
Who brought the first Africans to the British colonies in North America?
the Dutch
the British
the Spanish
the Portuguese
What was this series of trade routes called?
the Caribbean Exchange
the triangular trade
the Columbian Exchange
the Encomienda System
What types of goods were transported from the Americas to Europe?
manufactured goods
enslaved people
raw materials and foods
tools and equipment
How long did it take for ships carrying enslaved people from Africa to cross the Atlantic?
two to four days
two to four weeks
two to four months
two to four years
How long did the transatlantic slave trade last?
about fifty years
about one hundred years
about three hundred years
about seven hundred years
Why did British colonists stop using indentured servants and begin using enslaved Africans? Select
the two correct answers.
The indentured servants began living past the end of their contracts.
England passed a law that made using indentured servants illegal.
Indentured servants cost more than enslaved Africans.
The indentured servants threatened revolt.
All the indentured servants died.
What is supply?
The amount of money you have
When stores don't have enough of something
The total amount of goods or services provided
The cost of labor for a service
What is Demand?
Food in a store
The total amount of goods or services provided
How much money a person has
The amount of goods and services provided that a person pays an amount for
Individuals who are treated as complete property, to be bought and sold are known as ____________.
cattle
chattel
indentured servants
real estate
When did Columbus make his first voyage to the New World?
1492 AD
1492 BC
1606 AD
1606 BC
When did the Atlantic Slave Trade begin?
1619
1620
1621
1622
The Clotilda is significant because...
It was the ship that brought Columbus to America.
It was the first ship to engage in triangular trade.
It illegally transported enslaved Africans to Alabama after the international slave trade was banned.
It was the ship on which Equiano traveled.
Which of the following was a negative effect of the Columbian Exchange on the New World?
The Columbian Exchange brought new crops to the Americas.
The Columbian Exchange made new plants available to the Americas.
The Columbian Exchange brought new diseases to the Americas.
The Columbian Exchange made new livestock available to the Americas.
How did the Columbian Exchange affect agriculture in Europe and the Americas?
Some food and animals from Europe were difficult to raise in the Americas.
People on both continents grew new varieties of foods and raised new types of animals.
Most foods from the Americas could not be grown in Europe because of the harsh climate.
People on both continents found that the new foods would not grow well in their different soils.
Slaves were sent in large numbers to the...
New World
Old World
Based on the image, what are the things that were given to the New World from Europe during the Columbian Exchange? Select 4 correct answers.
A. Coffee Bean
B. Sugar Cane
C. Tomato
D. Livestock and Horses
E. Disease
