Definitions & Basics
Q: What term describes forcing someone to work without pay and without freedom to leave?
A: What is slavery?
Q: What type of slavery existed in the U.S. where people were owned for life?
A: What is chattel slavery?
Q: What mineral mined in Africa today is often linked to forced labor?
A: What is cobalt?
Q: What was the main reason slavery expanded in the Americas?
A: What is profit from cash crops?
Q: What is it called when enslaved people fought back against slavery?
A: What is resistance?
Q: What is the name for the forced movement of enslaved Africans to the Americas?
A: What is the Middle Passage?
Q: What type of labor system tied workers to land owned by others?
A: What is serfdom?
Q: What crop grown in West Africa is linked to child labor?
A: What is cocoa (chocolate)?
Q: What major crop drove slavery in the southern United States?
A: What is cotton?
Q: Who led a famous slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831?
A: Who is Nat Turner?
Q: What system treated enslaved people as property for life?
A: What is chattel slavery?
Q: What type of slavery involved people being forced to work to pay off debts?
A: What is debt bondage?
Q: What region is known for exploiting migrant workers in construction?
A: What are the Gulf States?
Q: What major crop drove slavery in Brazil?
A: What is sugar (sugarcane)?
Q: What successful slave revolt created the first Black republic?
A: What is the Haitian Revolution?
Q: What term refers to laws that controlled enslaved people’s behavior?
A: What are slave codes?
Q: What type of slavery involved people being bought and sold across oceans?
A: What is the transatlantic slave trade?
Q: What system in the U.S. is criticized for exploiting prison labor?
A: What is the prison system?
Q: What invention increased the demand for enslaved labor in the U.S.?
A: What is the cotton gin?
Q: What was a secret network that helped enslaved people escape?
A: What is the Underground Railroad?
Q: What economic system relied heavily on enslaved labor in the Americas?
A: What is the plantation system?
Q: What type of system replaced slavery in some places but still exploited workers?
A: What is sharecropping?
Q: What global system hides exploitation across countries?
A: What is a global supply chain?
Q: Why did Brazil import more enslaved Africans than the U.S.?
A: What is high death rates and constant demand for labor?
Q: Name one way enslaved people resisted besides open rebellion.
A: What is slow work, sabotage, preserving culture, running away, or learning to read/write?