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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will discuss that acts which ended the slave trade within the British Empire.

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5 Questions

Q1.
Which Caribbean island saw a successful slave rebellion?
Antigua
Barbados
Jamaica
Correct answer: Saint Domingue
Q2.
What did the 1806 act do?
Banned British merchants from trading enslaved people
Banned British merchants from trading enslaved people from West Africa
Banned British merchants from trading enslaved people in the Americas
Correct answer: Banned British merchants from trading enslaved people with other country's colonies
Q3.
Why did some Christians argue the slave trade was immoral (wrong)?
Went against the idea that all people are equal
Correct answer: Went against the story of Abraham
Went against the story of Moses
Went against the ten commandments
Q4.
Which of these was NOT used by the anti-slavery societies to gain support for the abolition of the slave trade?
Correct answer: Chaining themselves to railings outside Parliament
Gaining evidence of the horrors of the slave trade
Petitions
Public talks
Q5.
What boycott helped make the use of enslaved people less profitable?
Cotton
Correct answer: Sugar
Tea
Tobacco

5 Questions

Q1.
What did the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act do?
Abolish slavery completely
Abolished the American and European trading of enslaved people
Correct answer: Abolished the British trading of enslaved people
Abolished the European trading of enslaved people
Q2.
Which of these was not a tactic used by the British to try to end the slave trade?
Correct answer: Allowing slave ships to continue trading in the Americas
Banned British merchants from trading enslaved people
Making treaties with other countries allowing the Royal Navy to search their ships
Using the Royal Navy off the West African Coast
Q3.
Which slave revolt in Jamaica helped the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act to get passed?
Correct answer: Baptist War
First Maroon War
Saint Domingue Revolt
Tacky Revolt
Q4.
Which of the following was NOT a reason for slavery continuing after 1833?
People demanded products that could be made by enslaved labour
Slavery was used by other countries
Correct answer: The Royal Navy kept capturing all the slave ships leaving the West African coast
Using enslaved people still made money
Q5.
After the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, what did the former enslaved people become?
Correct answer: Apprentices
Equal with their former owners
Recognised as skilled workers
Still enslaved because they were sold to foreign slave colonies