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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Auction Block.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was it about the African civilizations that made it easier for colonists to use the Africans more easily?
(a) African civilizations encouraged traveling overseas.
(b) The African civilization was uncouth and therefore it was easier to teach them how to be a slave.
(c) The African civilizations were different which made the American way more inticing.
(d) African civilizations were highly developed with economic and political institutions, not unlike the American's own growing economy.

2. Who said the following: "You want to know what they did in slavery times. They were doing just what they do know."?
(a) Anonymous.
(b) Sallie Crane.
(c) Alice Johnson.
(d) Roberta Manson.

3. What was the name of the white man who taught his black son to call him "Papa" instead of "Master?"
(a) Byrl Anderson.
(b) Powhatan Mitchell.
(c) Frank Cooper.
(d) Charley Williams.

4. What was one cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Suffocation.
(c) Murder.
(d) Starvation.

5. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(b) African chiefs were tricked into "loaning out" tribesmen as indentured servants.
(c) African chiefs made deals with one another to trade their own tribesmen and prisoners to the white traders for goods.
(d) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?

2. What was the reason for the months that slave traders chose to have slave coffles?

3. What was a second principal item for which slaves were traded for?

4. Why did the emotional scenes during slave trades occur?

5. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?

(see the answer key)

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