History (Slavery)

Question 1

How Many Marks Do You Get From a Describe Question and Equally how Many Sentences Should You Aim For (Minimum)

Answer 1

4

Question 2

How Many Marks Do You Get From a Explain Question and how Many Sentences Should You Aim For (Minimum)

Answer 2

5 marks, 10 Sentences

Question 3

What is meant by the Phrase Flogging?

Answer 3

A whipping

Question 4

Why Would Someone Become a Slave?

Answer 4

Capture/kidnap by rival tribe, if they broke the law

Question 5

What are Slave Factories?

Answer 5

A place where slaves where held while waiting for ships to take them across seas.

Question 6

What was Traded With the Africans for Slaves?

Answer 6

Iron, Cotton and Weapons

Question 7

How Long Could a Trip Across the Middle Passage Take?

Answer 7

Between 6-12 weeks

Question 8

What was the Middle Passage?

Answer 8

The transatlantic voyage between West Africa and the New World.

Question 9

What Were Slaves Fed on the Middle Passage?

Answer 9

Cheap, nutritious food which were heavily salted to last the whole journey.

Question 10

What Were Slaves Made to do to Keep Them Tired and Prevent Rebellion on the Middle Passage?

Answer 10

They were made to dance above deck.

Question 11

What Would Happen to the Sick on the Middle Passage?

Answer 11

They were drowned to prevent the diseases spreading.

Question 12

What was Common Amongst the Desperate on the Middle Passage and How was it Resolved?

Answer 12

Suicide was common so captains put nets around the ship to stop any people jumping of the boat,

Question 13

What Disease Were the Slaves Checked for at Slave Auctions?

Answer 13

Scurvy

Question 14

Where Were the Slaves Kept Once They Arrived in the New World.

Answer 14

In Holding Pens

Question 15

What was Done to Slaves to Make Them look Fitter?

Answer 15

They were covered in tar

Question 16

Why were the Slaves Pocked and Prodded at Slave Auctions?

Answer 16

To see how fit they were

Question 17

What Would Often Happen to the Slave Families After Slave Auctions?

Answer 17

They would be separated

Question 18

Where Did the Slaves Live on the Plantations?

Answer 18

In small, wooden huts

Question 19

How Many Hours Did the Slaves Get to Rest on Plantations?

Answer 19

2 hours

Question 20

What May Have Happened if You Were Late too Work on Plantains?

Answer 20

You may get whipped

Question 21

What Were Some Ways that Slaves Rebelled on Plantations?

Answer 21

Complaining and being disrespectful to and about overseers behind their back and to their face. Working slowly. Suicide. Stealing Food. Running Away. Attacking an Overseer and full on Rebellions.

Question 22

What Did the Branks Do?

Answer 22

A leather covering for the face and made it hard to eat and talk and humiliated the slaves.

Question 23

What Was the Sugar Boycott?

Answer 23

The act of trying to convince the general public of Britain to not buy sugar from the West Indies as they used Slavery and instead buy their sugar which used no slavery to produce