Lesson Y8-U03-L05

Y8-U03-L05 Resistance and Rebellion Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 9

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Lesson Y8-U03-L05, Resistance and Rebellion: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 9: Year 8: Slavery, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. In which year did the uprising in Saint-Domingue begin?

    • 1739
    • 1791
    • 1807
    • 1804

  2. Who led the Haitian Revolution as its brilliant military leader?

    • Toussaint L'Ouverture
    • Mansa Musa, the wealthy Mali ruler who made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324
    • Sengbe Pieh, the African leader of the Amistad revolt who won freedom in the US courts
    • Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveller who recorded his journeys across Africa and Asia

  3. In what year did Haiti declare independence?

    • 1865
    • 1791
    • 1833
    • 1804

  4. What made the Haitian Revolution historically unique?

    • It ended the Roman Empire and brought the era of ancient Rome to a sudden close
    • It was the only successful large-scale slave revolt to create a free nation
    • It was a peaceful trade agreement that opened the ports of the Caribbean to all nations
    • It was founded by Spanish settlers who had sailed from Cuba to claim the western island

  5. What is the difference between everyday resistance and open rebellion?

    • Open rebellion never happened anywhere, and the stories about it are entirely legends
    • Everyday resistance was small, hidden and daily; open rebellion was large, public and organised
    • Both were the same thing, simply described in different words by different writers
    • Everyday resistance was large and armed, while open rebellion was small and secret

  6. Who took over the fight after Toussaint was captured, leading Haiti to independence?

    • Askia Muhammad, the Songhai ruler who reorganised his empire with provinces and officials
    • Oliver Cromwell, the English Lord Protector who ruled after the execution of Charles I
    • Mansa Musa, the Mali emperor famous for his lavish gold and his journey to Mecca
    • Jean-Jacques Dessalines

  7. Roughly how many shipboard revolts are recorded from the slave trade?

    • Five
    • At least 485
    • None
    • About 12 million

  8. How did Olaudah Equiano become free?

    • He was made a Royal Navy officer
    • He escaped to Africa
    • He was freed by the King
    • He bought his freedom

  9. What did Olaudah Equiano publish in 1789?

    • A law banning the slave trade
    • His autobiography (life story)
    • A map of the Atlantic
    • A plantation account book

  10. Which European power ruled Saint-Domingue, where the revolt began?

    • Iceland
    • Denmark
    • Portugal
    • France

  11. Why did slave-owners in other countries fear Haiti?

    • It was a peaceful trade partner that sent generous gifts of coffee to the King
    • It banned all Atlantic ships from its harbours and closed its ports to foreign trade
    • It sold sugar more cheaply than any other island and undercut the British planters
    • It proved a slave revolt could win and inspired enslaved people elsewhere

  12. Why was the 1791 uprising an example of 'open' resistance?

    • It was a hidden garden
    • It was a large, organised, armed rebellion
    • It was a secret song
    • It was a quiet go-slow in the fields

  13. Source B calls the rebels 'savagery'. What does this word tell us?

    • It shows the author was a Haitian who had lived in Port-au-Prince for many years
    • It reveals the plantation owner's fear and bias
    • It proves the rebels were savages who attacked everyone they met on the roads
    • It is a fact about sugar and the price it fetched in the London markets each year

  14. Why is Source A, Toussaint's proclamation, useful to historians?

    • It was written by a plantation owner who wanted to protect his profits and land
    • It shows the price of sugar that the planters received from their Bristol agents
    • It is a poem about the sea that describes a long voyage across the Atlantic
    • It shows the fighters' own stated aims of liberty and equality

  15. Why was Equiano's book useful to the abolition campaign?

    • It was a first-hand account that made readers see enslaved people as human
    • It listed the sugar profits earned by merchants on each voyage across the ocean
    • It contained no personal experience and was written by a clerk in London
    • It was a royal decree issued by the King to end the trade throughout the empire

  16. Which group in Source D fought to keep their freedom in the mountains?

    • The Royal Navy
    • The Sugar barons
    • The Abolitionists
    • The Maroons

  17. Why is everyday resistance hard for enslavers to punish?

    • It is always public, so every act could be seen and punished by the overseers
    • It only happens on Sundays, when the enslaved were allowed their rest from work
    • It is illegal to sing, and the law punished anyone who was caught singing
    • It is hidden and hard to prove, and almost everyone did it

  18. Why does the 'rebel' or 'freedom fighter' label matter in history?

    • Because the label shows the speaker's viewpoint, though both describe the same actions
    • Because it changes the date of the revolution, which began in a different year
    • Because only one word is in the dictionary, so the other word is wrong
    • Because words never change meaning, so a rebel is always a rebel for ever

  19. Why does the lesson say the resistance view challenges an older story?

    • Older accounts credited only white abolitionists, while enslaved people's resistance was a driving force
    • Older accounts said Haiti was never a nation and that its independence was never recognised
    • Older accounts said enslaved people never resisted and always accepted their fate quietly
    • Older accounts said slavery never existed in the Caribbean, and that the islands were free

  20. Why does Equiano's disputed birthplace not make his book useless?

    • His birthplace proves he was a plantation owner who had been born on an island estate
    • His book still moved readers and was useful to the campaign, though some details may be disputed
    • The disputed birthplace means the book is a fake that was written by a London publisher
    • No historian has ever read the book, so its value cannot be judged by anyone at all

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