Lesson Y8-U03-L07

Y8-U03-L07 How Was Slavery Ended 1807 and 1833 Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 9

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Lesson Y8-U03-L07, How Was Slavery Ended 1807 and 1833: 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 1807, what did Parliament make illegal across the British Empire?

    • Owning any enslaved person who lived on a plantation in the Caribbean
    • Working on a plantation as an enslaved person in any British colony
    • Buying and selling enslaved people, which is the slave trade
    • Transporting sugar and cotton from the colonies on British merchant ships

  2. Why did enslaved people still remain enslaved in the British Empire after 1807?

    • Parliament decided that slavery was a good system that helped the economy grow
    • The 1807 law only banned the trade, so the 800,000 people already enslaved stayed enslaved
    • The Royal Navy refused to stop ships that were carrying enslaved people across the Atlantic
    • Enslaved people were forbidden by law from learning to read and write in English

  3. In which year did the Slavery Abolition Act free enslaved people across most of the British Empire?

    • 1833
    • 1807
    • 1791
    • 1838

  4. After 1833, what was the 'apprenticeship' system?

    • Freed people were sent to Africa to be trained as farmers on new land
    • Former owners were required to pay freed people a wage for teaching them to read
    • Children were taught trades in factories and paid a wage by the government
    • Freed people were forced to keep working unpaid for their old owners for several years

  5. What does the word 'emancipation' mean?

    • Refusing to buy goods such as sugar to force a change in the law
    • Setting people free from slavery
    • Making goods at home by hand rather than in a large factory
    • Signing a letter to Parliament asking it to change an existing law

  6. What is a petition in the campaign against slavery?

    • A memorial built to honour the people who died on the Middle Passage
    • A refusal to buy slave-grown sugar used to force change in trade
    • A written list of the cargo carried on board a slave ship across the Atlantic
    • A signed letter to Parliament asking it to change the law

  7. What is a boycott, as used by campaigners against slavery?

    • Setting enslaved people free by making a formal legal declaration
    • Signing a letter to Parliament asking MPs to pass a brand new law
    • Recording the cargo and the number of deaths on a slave ship's voyage
    • Refusing to buy something, such as slave-grown sugar, to force a change

  8. Which author published an 1789 autobiography describing capture, the Middle Passage and slavery in his own words?

    • Olaudah Equiano
    • Thomas Clarkson
    • Sam Sharpe
    • Toussaint Louverture

  9. Which leader helped enslaved people overthrow French rule in Haiti between 1791 and 1804?

    • William Wilberforce
    • Olaudah Equiano
    • Toussaint Louverture
    • Sam Sharpe

  10. What was the Baptist War of 1831 in Jamaica?

    • A revolt by up to 60,000 enslaved people, led by the preacher Sam Sharpe
    • A battle in which French forces seized the island of Jamaica from British control
    • A campaign by Jamaican plantation owners demanding payment from Parliament for lost land
    • A dispute between British missionaries and the Jamaican government over local taxes

  11. A historian says enslaved people were 'not passive victims'. Which example best supports this claim?

    • They were given wages by plantation owners in return for their labour
    • They were transported across the Atlantic on ships that sailed from West Africa
    • They were freed by Parliament in 1807 when it banned the slave trade
    • They revolted, escaped and worked slowly, which made slavery costly and dangerous to run

  12. Which place saw enslaved people led by Toussaint Louverture overthrow French rule and found the first free Black republic?

    • Bristol, during the protests over the Colston statue in 2020
    • Haiti, between 1791 and 1804
    • Jamaica, during the Baptist War of 1831 and its aftermath
    • Liverpool, during the campaign of the 1780s and 1790s

  13. In the campaign against the slave trade, how many national petitions were recorded in 1792?

    • 51
    • 1,519
    • 5,190
    • 519

  14. Around how many households took part in the boycott of slave-grown sugar?

    • About 30,000 households
    • About 3 million households
    • About 3,000 households
    • About 300,000 households

  15. Why did Olaudah Equiano's writing carry so much weight in the campaign against slavery?

    • It was printed by Parliament to explain the new laws that were passed in 1807
    • It proved that sugar from the colonies was more profitable than slave labour
    • It was the first book ever published about the Royal Navy and its ships
    • It gave eyewitness testimony about the trade's cruelty that a white campaigner could not provide

  16. Which tactic did British campaigners use to shock people about conditions on slave ships?

    • Building museums that displayed the belongings of enslaved people in London
    • Publishing the Brookes diagram of a slave ship packed with captives
    • Sending a navy fleet to attack Caribbean plantations in full view of the public
    • Forcing enslaved people to work in the mills of Manchester as a public display

  17. What was the 'Sons of Africa' in the British campaign against slavery?

    • An early Black campaign group in Britain, which Olaudah Equiano helped to lead
    • A navy squadron that patrolled the African coast to stop slave ships in 1807
    • A society of plantation owners who lobbied Parliament to delay abolition
    • A group of African kings who signed treaties with Britain to end the slave trade

  18. A student argues that money was the main reason slavery ended. Which fact would most weaken this argument?

    • Some merchants began to invest their money in new industries rather than in slavery
    • Sugar from slave colonies had become less profitable by the early 1800s
    • Slavery was still making huge profits for many owners in 1833
    • Free-trade thinkers argued that paid workers could be cheaper than enslaved ones

  19. Which statement best explains why both 1807 and 1833 are important dates?

    • 1807 and 1833 both ended the slave trade, but neither changed the law on slavery itself
    • 1807 freed enslaved people in Haiti, while 1833 freed enslaved people in Jamaica
    • 1807 ended the buying and selling of enslaved people, while 1833 ended slavery itself across most of the Empire
    • 1807 ended slavery itself, while 1833 ended only the buying and selling of enslaved people

  20. Why did testimony from Black abolitionists such as Equiano and Cugoano carry such weight with the British public?

    • It was written by Parliament, which made the accounts official evidence and sent copies to every county court
    • It was approved by the Church of England before it could be published in Britain
    • It was written by Parliament, which made the accounts official government evidence
    • It came from people who had lived through enslavement, so it was first-hand evidence that was hard to dismiss

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