John Newton
John Newton wrote this famous hymn about redemption.
What is "Amazing Grace?"
A reason that makes people want to leave a place, such as war or a lack of jobs.
What is a push factor?
Two European nations that competed for unclaimed and unexplored lands. (Name only two)
Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and/or the Netherlands
A person who worked to end slavery.
Who is an abolitionist?
This was the African country where Olaudah Equiano said he was born.
What is Nigeria?
John Newton went to sea and eventually became involved in this type of trade.
What is the slave trade?
A reason that draws people toward a new place, such as better jobs or safety.
What is a pull factor?
The time period of the Age of Exploration.
What is the early 15th century through the 17th century.
The act of taking someone away by force, against their will.
What is abduction?
Equiano was kidnapped from his home as a child and forced into this system.
What is slavery?
John Newton worked aboard ships that transported enslaved people from this continent.
What is Africa?
A way of showing how one event (the cause) makes another event happen (the effect).
What is cause and effect?
Captain Cook mapped out new lands for this country.
What is Great Britain?
Common or widespread at a certain time or place.
What is prevalent?
Equiano learned to read and write while he was enslaved, skills that later helped him fight against slavery.
What is education?
Caused John Newton to have a profound spiritual experience and begin changing his life.
What is a storm?
A person who moves from one place to live in another, often to find work or safety.
What is a migrant?
Captain Cook mapped the coast of this continent during his first voyage.
What is Australia?
To suddenly inspire someone to take action.
What is to galvanize?
Equiano eventually earned enough money to purchase this from his enslaver.
What is his freedom?
Later in life, John Newton became an outspoken opponent of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
Means you leave or exit your current nation.
What is emigration?
Captain Cook's voyages helped Europeans create more accurate maps of this vast body of water.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Britain's law-making government body, which passes laws and controls government spending.
What is parliament?
Equiano's autobiography helped expose the cruelty of this system and influenced people who wanted to end it.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?