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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Plantation.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 1860, less than ______ slave owners owned more than ______ slaves.
(a) 3000; 150.
(b) 3000; 100.
(c) 4000; 150.
(d) 4000; 150.

3. Whose account is an example of a joyous occasion seen at the auction block?
(a) Lou Smith.
(b) Prince Bee.
(c) Jenny Proctor.
(d) Doc Daniel Dowdy.

4. Who was the largest slave trader in Memphis, Tennessee?
(a) Moses Grandy
(b) Doc Daniel Dowdy
(c) West Turner
(d) Nathan Bedford Forrest

5. Between the time that a slave was bought and sold by a trader, what happened to him?
(a) His well-being was looked after.
(b) He was allowed to spend extra time with his family.
(c) He was given a few days vacation.
(d) He was punished so he would not run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Complete the author's sentence: "They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was _______________."

2. Why did the attempt to use this second group of people also fail for the English colonists?

3. Who said the following: "We never heard our names scarcely at all. First young man I went with wanted to know my initials! What did I know 'bout initials?"

4. What was Franklin and Armfield?

5. ____________ was the practice of slave owners which resulted in more children for next generation labor and an easy way to make a profit through sales.

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