Question 1
Why did the African slave trade begin?
A) African rulers wanted to sell slaves to the Chinese.
B) Europeans wanted to fill a labor shortage in the Mediterranean world.
C) Europeans wanted new workers to drive down wages in the colonies.
D) European elites valued African culture and viewed Africans as equals.
Question 2
The African slave trade helped in the advancement of
A) crops.
B) agricultural techniques.
C) medical knowledge.
D) All of the above.
Question 3
Which of the following crops did Europeans use African slave labor to produce in the Americas?
A) sugar
B) rice
C) tobacco
D) All of the above.
Question 4
How many Africans do historians estimate were taken as slaves to the New World?
A) 96 million
B) 9.6 million
C) 1 million
D) 200,000
Caleb Goodwin, Inventory of Slaves and Livestock.
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