Unit 4: The impact of the transatlantic slave trade on America, Britain and West Africa - Grade 7 (QUIZ)

Unit 1 Quiz

1. Which crop was the most financially important in America before the Civil War?

Tobacco Cotton Sugar Rice

2. How did slavery contribute to the American economy?

By encouraging free labor By promoting industrial growth in the North By increasing immigration Through the unpaid labor of slaves producing cash crops

3. When was slavery made illegal in the Northern states?

1834 1859 1861 1865

4. How did Britain benefit from the transatlantic slave trade?

By farming cash crops on plantations By trading raw materials and developing industries to process them By abolishing slavery early By providing ships only to America

5. Which ports profited from the slave trade in Britain?

London, Manchester, and Leeds Dover, Newcastle, and Portsmouth Liverpool, Bristol, and Glasgow Cardiff, Southampton, and York

6. What was one negative impact of the slave trade on West Africa?

Population decline and societal breakdown Increase in industrialization Improvement in local economies Decrease in wars between tribes

7. How did European colonists affect farming in West Africa?

By helping Africans grow more food crops By stopping all farming activities By encouraging self-sufficient farming By forcing farmers to grow export crops like coffee instead of food crops

8. What effect did the slave trade have on the African kingdoms’ economies?

It made them wealthy and independent It stopped trade with Europe It created dependency on European goods and weakened traditional trade It had no impact

9. Why did wars increase between African tribes during the slave trade?

To capture prisoners to sell to slave traders To gain independence from Europe To fight against slavery To unite against European colonists

10. What was one long-term effect of the transatlantic slave trade on West Africa?

Rapid population growth Continued poverty and weakened societies Industrial advancement Political stability