Transatlantic slave trade Y8

Question 1

Middle Passage

Answer 1

Journey enslaved Africans took to the Americas.

Question 2

Slave Trade Act 1807

Answer 2

Ended buying and selling enslaved people in Britain.

Question 3

Slavery Abolition Act 1833

Answer 3

Made all slavery illegal in the British Empire.

Question 4

Plantations

Answer 4

Large farms using enslaved labor for cash crops.

Question 5

Resistance

Answer 5

Actions taken against slavery by enslaved people.

Question 6

Abolition

Answer 6

Movement to end slavery and the slave trade.

Question 7

Wilberforce

Answer 7

Key white campaigner for abolition in Britain.

Question 8

Clarkson

Answer 8

Anti-slavery campaigner who documented slave ship conditions.

Question 9

Equiano

Answer 9

Freed slave who campaigned for abolition.

Question 10

Cuguano

Answer 10

Former enslaved person who fought against slavery.

Question 11

L’Ouverture

Answer 11

Leader of the Haitian Revolution against slavery.

Question 12

Baptist War

Answer 12

Major slave rebellion in Jamaica, 1831-1832.

Question 13

Provenance

Answer 13

Source’s origin, purpose, and reliability assessment.

Question 14

Human Cargo

Answer 14

Term for enslaved people transported on ships.

Question 15

Propaganda

Answer 15

Biased or misleading information

Question 16

Slave Rebellions

Answer 16

Uprisings by enslaved people against their captivity.

Question 17

Slave Auction

Answer 17

a public sale in which slaves were sold to the highest bidders

Question 18

Scramble auction

Answer 18

Buyers rush to grab slaves at set price.

Question 19

Edward Colston

Answer 19

A slave trader and member of the Royal African Company who lived in Bristol. He used some of the money he made from slavery to build hospitals and schools in Bristol. Many streets and buildings are named after him.

Question 20

Active resistance

Answer 20

Obvious acts against plantation owners

Question 21

Passive Resistance

Answer 21

Nonviolent or discreet acts against plantation owners

Question 22

Slavery

Answer 22

the condition of being owned by another person and being made to work without pay or rights

Question 23

Trade Triangle

Answer 23

the transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americas

Question 24

Causes of slavery

Answer 24

Attitudes at the time (racism)
Religion (convert to Christianity)
Economic (1000% profit)

Question 25

Raw materials farmed on plantations

Answer 25

cotton, sugar, tobacco

Question 26

Percentage of slaves shipped to work on plantations

Answer 26

80%

Question 27

Underground Railroad

Answer 27

a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

Question 28

Henry Bright

Answer 28

Bristol merchant and slave-trader

Question 29

Transatlantic slave trade

Answer 29

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage