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Social Studies Slave
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the slave trade? | Exchanging people for goods. |
| What is a dilemma? | A situation where a person is forced to make a decision even though he or she doesn't like any of the choices |
| In the 1500's, people of many cultures lived where? | West Africa |
| West African society was based on what? | Families and storytelling |
| Why did Europeans need slaves? | To work on their plantations. Slaves were cheap and got the work done. |
| Where did Europeans go to get slaves? | West Africa |
| What did Europeans trade in exchange for slaves? | guns, salt, rum and clothing |
| Why were guns important to villages in Africa? | A village that had a gun was more powerful than a village that didn't |
| Did West Africans capture their own people for slaves? | Yes West Africans enslaved people to trade for guns. |
| What was the slave trade called? | Triangular Trade |
| What trade routes made up the Triangular Trade? | Europe, Africa and the Americas |
| In the Triangular Trade, Europeans did what? | Europeans took slaves and sold them to America |
| In the Triangular Trade, Americans did what? | Americans bought slaves to use on sugar plantations and tobacco plantations. |
| In the Triangular Trade, Africans did what? | Africans bought cloth, rum and goods from Europe and America (which was made on plantations with slaves) |
| What was grown in the West Indies? | sugar cane |
| What is sugar cane turned into? | sugar and molasses |
| What did New Englanders (Americans) turn sugar and molasses into? | rum |
| What does Europe buy from America? | Europeans buy cotton, tobacco and sugar from America (they turn it into rum and clothing) |
| What does Europe trade to Africa? | They bring clothes, rum and tobacco to trade for slaves |
| What were the two ways the slave traders sold the slaves? | Scrambles and the slave auction |
| What is The Scrambles? | Public sale where the price was the same for every slave |
| What is a Slave Auction? | The slaves stood on a platform and buyers bid against eachother |
| Why was the first year as a slave so hard? | They gave the slaves new names and they had to work hard and follow the orders of an overseer |
| What was an overseer? | A person in charge of the work of slaves |
| Where did most slaves work? | In the fields. They worked 16 hours. |
| How did slaves find different ways to survive? | They did storytelling and shared folktales, they sang music and spirituals, and they had religion (worship services) |
| What is a spiritual? | A type of religious song that expressed deep emotion |
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