Lesson Y8-U03-L08

Y8-U03-L08 The Legacy of Slavery Today Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 9

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U03-L08, The Legacy of Slavery Today: 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 history, what does the word 'legacy' mean?

    • The lasting effects something leaves behind, long after it has ended
    • A payment made by one country to another to end a long war
    • A formal ceremony held each year to honour a famous historical event
    • A written record of the laws that were passed to end a practice

  2. What is a 'descendant'?

    • A person related to someone who lived long ago
    • A person who was taken across the Atlantic on a slave ship
    • A person who taught enslaved people to read in a plantation school
    • A person who helped to write the laws that ended the slave trade

  3. What does it mean to 'commemorate' an event or a person?

    • To pay money to the families of people who were harmed in the past
    • To remember and honour them, for example with a museum or memorial
    • To travel to a distant place to study its history and its archives
    • To pass a new law that makes an event illegal to discuss in public

  4. What are 'reparations'?

    • Laws passed by Parliament to limit the power of plantation owners
    • Repairs made to ships that were damaged on long voyages across the Atlantic
    • Official records kept by governments of the people who were sold abroad
    • Money or actions intended to make up for a past wrong

  5. Roughly how many Africans were trafficked in the transatlantic slave trade?

    • About 120 million
    • About 120,000
    • About 12 million
    • About 1.2 million

  6. For how long did the transatlantic slave trade last?

    • Around 50 years
    • Around 150 years
    • Around 100 years
    • Over 300 years

  7. Which of these statements about the roots of modern music is accurate?

    • Folk dancing and village fiddle music came to Britain from enslaved people in the Americas
    • Opera, ballet and classical symphonies all grew out of plantation life in the Caribbean
    • Brass bands and church choirs in Britain were created by enslaved people in the 1600s
    • Blues, jazz, gospel and reggae trace their roots back to enslaved communities

  8. A museum in Liverpool teaches visitors about the slave trade. Which legacy does this show?

    • A law forcing schools to teach only the achievements of British merchants
    • An agreement between Britain and Africa to share their ports and docks
    • A determination to remember and teach the history so that it is not forgotten
    • A decision by the government to stop all trade with former colonies

  9. Which features in Bristol and Liverpool show the wealth from the slave trade is still visible today?

    • Public parks paid for by the government after the Slavery Abolition Act
    • Grand buildings, docks and street names built on the profits of the trade
    • Modern shopping centres that were designed to replace the old slave markets
    • Factories that manufacture goods for export to the former colonies

  10. Who received the 20 million pounds in compensation paid by the government when slavery ended?

    • The Royal Navy, which had patrolled the Atlantic to stop the trade
    • The former slave owners, while the enslaved people received nothing
    • The enslaved people, who received money to start new lives in Britain
    • The campaigners who had signed petitions against slavery in the 1780s

  11. In what year did the UK finish repaying the loan taken out to compensate slave owners?

    • 1989
    • 1938
    • 2003
    • 2015

  12. About 10.7 million of the roughly 12 million Africans trafficked survived the Middle Passage. What does this figure imply?

    • About 1 million people died in Africa before they boarded
    • About 12 million people survived the crossing
    • About 1.3 million people died during the crossing
    • About 10.7 million people died during the crossing

  13. What happened to the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol in 2020?

    • It was toppled during protests
    • It was donated to the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool
    • It was repaired after being damaged by a storm
    • It was moved to a new museum after a government decision

  14. A student says the slave trade ended in 1807, so it has no legacy today. Which evidence best challenges this view?

    • The Royal Navy stopped slave ships on the Atlantic in the early 1800s
    • Parliament passed a law in 1807 that banned the slave trade across the Empire
    • Descendants of enslaved people now live in communities across the Americas, the Caribbean and Britain
    • Plantation owners were paid compensation in 1833, and the money was used to build new mills in the north

  15. Why might keeping African languages, beliefs and music alive be described as 'an act of resistance'?

    • It refused to let the identity of enslaved people be erased
    • It gave enslaved people a legal right to form their own government
    • It allowed enslaved people to earn money to buy their freedom
    • It was a rule set by plantation owners to keep workers happy

  16. Which question would best help a historian measure the legacy of an event?

    • What changed, who is still affected, and why is it remembered today?
    • How many people were involved, and what was the cost of the event?
    • Which government first passed a law about the event, and when?
    • Who was the monarch at the time, and how long did it last in total?

  17. What does the word 'diaspora' describe?

    • Communities of people who were spread across the world from their original homeland
    • A law that forced a group of people to move to a new colony
    • A festival held each year to celebrate the end of a slave revolt
    • A type of ship used to carry goods across the Atlantic in the 1700s

  18. Which statement about the wealth made from the slave trade is best supported by the evidence?

    • All of the money made from slavery was given back to the enslaved after 1833
    • The wealth from slavery was never invested in British cities or banks, and was kept by the enslaved families
    • Most British country houses were built by enslaved people after they were freed
    • Some of the money made from slavery helped build cities, banks and country houses still standing today

  19. Which conclusion about a historical event is best supported by the idea that its effects can last long after it has ended?

    • Historical events are only important when they involve a large number of soldiers
    • An event that ended long ago is no longer important to historians or to people today
    • An event is significant only if it led directly to a new law being passed
    • An event can be over, yet its effects and the people it shaped can still be significant today

  20. The arguments about how to remember the slave trade show that it is:

    • still very much alive in public life
    • a topic that is only discussed in universities and never in schools
    • a topic that has been settled and is no longer debated by historians
    • a topic that matters only to the descendants of plantation owners

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