Quest Review Questions

Chapter QUEST 2

Multiple Choice: Circle best answer.

1. The middle passage was:

a. the voluntary emigration of Africans to America.

b. the transporting of captives from Africa to England.

c. the voyage of African captives from Africa to the Americas.

d. the voyage that took rebellious Africans back to Africa.

2. Portugal was the leading European country that paved the way for the enslavement of Africans and transporting them to the Americas.

a. True

b. False

3. The profits from the Atlantic slave trade helped to finance the:

a. gold rush in California.

b. westward expansion of the United States.

c. Industrial Revolution in England.

d. construction of the reservations for the Indians.

4. The enslaved Africans:

a. accepted their plight passively.

b. couldn’t rebel because the slave crew had guns.

c. rebelled while boarding the ships and in the open seas.

d. waited until the ships landed and tried running away.

5. The humiliation of enslaved Africans continued once they were ashore, where they were:

a. allowed to rest from the long Atlantic trip before being sold.

b. washed down, greased up, and place on the auction block.

c. kept with their tribe and sold as a group.

d. trained how to be a good slave before being sold.

6. Africans born in the Americas were preferred by the planters over those Africans who were new arrivals because:

a. the Africans born in the Americas made good house servants.

b. the recent arrivals took too long to learn English.

c. the new arrivals had bad attitudes and had to be broken in.

d. they were cheaper to purchase; the buyer didn’t have to pay to

transportation fees.

7. A ship’s size determined is capacity. Most captains:

a. followed the formula of two slavers per ton.

b. kept human cargo light.

c. were “tight packers” and squeezed people tightly into the ship.

d. were concerned about the health of their cargo.

8. England became the leading nation in the Atlantic slave trade in the 1700s; however, by the early 1800s:

a. they wanted to end the slave trade because they felt slavery was

morally wrong.

b. they could no longer compete with the U.S. ships that were

faster and could hold more Africans.

c. the Industrial Revolution made it unnecessary for their economy to

depend on the slave trade.

d. they were trying to appease the growing abolitionist movement.

9. The European ships that brought Africans across the Atlantic Ocean in the

eighteenth century were called ____________________.

10. What products did the Europeans desire that led to their need for forced labor?

1. sugar, tobacco, rice, and indigo
2. ivory tusks, corn, rice, and indigo
3. sugar, apples, rice, and watermelon
4. tomatoes, tobacco, rice, and indigo

11. The mortality rate on the slave ships was high because of crowded, unsanitary conditions and seaboard epidemics, and it is said that:

1. two-thirds of the Africans died between their capture and “seasoning.”
2. the rate of death among slaver crews was proportionally higher than the enslaved.
3. A and B are true.
4. Only A is true.

12. European crew members brutalized the Africans aboard the ships because:

a. they regarded slavery as a suitable condition for non-Christians.

b. they were preparing them for life on the plantation.

c. they felt it was the only way to keep them from rebelling.

d. the more Africans brought to shore, the more the profit.

13. Oftentimes enslaved Africans had to be “prepared” before being sold, so the ship’s crew would:

1. allow them to exercise and clean themselves up.
2. have a doctor inspect them for ailments and disease.
3. dye their hair to conceal their age and oil their bodies to hide the blemishes.
4. fatten up the frail and the skinny to get a better price for them.

14. Planters looked for cargos carrying young African boys and girls from ages 10 to 13:

1. so the old Africans could teach them the language and how to be “good slaves” and the plantation way of life.
2. because they were easier to train than the older African arrivals.
3. because they were strong and made better workers.
4. because it was easier to take them from their families and sold.

15. “Seasoning” is the term used to describe:

1. the acclimation process of brutalizing and humiliating enslaved Africans to their new life as slaves in the Americas.
2. the process developed by enslaved Africans to preserve their food.
3. the process by which planters used to separate house servants from field workers.
4. the leniency bestowed upon older enslaved Africans by the some of the planters for their years of hard work.

Essay

In a well developed essay answer this…

Some Historians say that slavery fueled the Industrial Revolution? Do you agree? Why or why not? (Your answer MUST be supported with facts)