Britain, the Slave Trade and Abolition · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

The triangle trade and its ending

History · Britain Through Time · ages 11-13
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. What was the Middle Passage?

    • The voyage home with sugar
    • The chained crossing of enslaved Africans to the Americas
    • A canal in Liverpool

  2. What did British ships carry to West Africa on the first leg?

    • Sugar and tobacco
    • Guns, cloth and metal goods
    • Empty holds

  3. Ports like Liverpool and Bristol grew rich from the slave trade.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. Why did Equiano's tours move crowds more than numbers on a page?

    • He had lived the Middle Passage himself
    • He sold cheap sugar
    • He owned many ships

  5. Shoppers in 1792 stopped buying slave-grown sugar, led by wives who did the buying. What weapon is that?

    • A boycott hitting traders in the wallet
    • A new tax on tea
    • A longer sea route

  6. Enslaved people slowed work, kept faith and music, ran away or revolted. What does that list prove?

    • They shaped abolition themselves
    • They enjoyed plantation life
    • They never acted

  7. Historians credit campaigners, revolts and money shifts together. Why all three?

    • Three sounds tidier
    • Laws pass themselves
    • One cause alone cannot explain decades of change

  8. A timeline says 1807: slavery ends in the British Empire. What is the error?

    • The year is too late
    • 1807 banned the trade, but slavery ran into the 1830s
    • Parliament never met
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  1. The chained crossing of enslaved Africans to the Americas · Weeks in a dark hold killed many of thirst, disease or despair.
  2. Guns, cloth and metal goods · Manufactures sailed out to be traded for captive people.
  3. True · They fitted out slave ships while banks and factories shared the gains.
  4. He had lived the Middle Passage himself · A witness voice makes distant suffering feel real.
  5. A boycott hitting traders in the wallet · Empty sugar bowls pressed owners harder than speeches alone.
  6. They shaped abolition themselves · Revolt and daily courage forced the pace of change.
  7. One cause alone cannot explain decades of change · Boycotts, Haiti's revolt and wage labour each pushed partway.
  8. 1807 banned the trade, but slavery ran into the 1830s · The ban stopped new shipments yet freed nobody already held.
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