The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1770-1807 - SQA National 5 History quiz quiz
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What were the three legs of the triangular trade?
What goods did British ships carry to West Africa on the first leg?
Why did British ports such as Liverpool and Bristol profit from the trade?
How were many people captured in West Africa for the slave trade?
What was a barracoon?
Why did the slave trade damage African societies?
Why did slave traders pack their ships so tightly on the Middle Passage?
Which disease, called the 'bloody flux', spread on slave ships?
What was the main work most enslaved people were forced to do on the plantations?
Why was treatment on the plantations so harsh?
What was the most common form of resistance by enslaved people?
Why was large-scale revolt so difficult for enslaved people?
Which groups gave the abolition campaign much of its moral force?
Which method did abolitionists use to pressure Parliament and the public?
Why did planters, merchants and ports oppose abolition?
What did the Act of 1807 abolish?