Lesson Y8-U03-L07

How Was Slavery Ended 1807 and 1833 Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 9

20 questions

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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. What did the 1807 Act make illegal across the British Empire?

    • All slavery
    • Plantation taxes
    • Slave trade
    • Sugar imports

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

    • Slavery abolished
    • Only trade banned
    • Emancipation completed
    • Law was ignored

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

    • 1833
    • 1807
    • 1791
    • 1838

  4. What was the apprenticeship system introduced after 1833?

    • School training
    • Immediate freedom
    • Paid employment
    • Unpaid forced labour

  5. What does the term 'emancipation' mean?

    • Colonising land
    • Setting people free
    • Banning imports
    • Imposing taxes

  6. What was a petition used by abolitionists?

    • Newspaper advert
    • Trade boycott
    • Armed revolt
    • Signed letter

  7. What is a boycott as used by anti-slavery campaigners?

    • Destroying ships
    • Blocking roads
    • Leaving parliament
    • Refusing to buy

  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. Who led the Baptist War slave revolt in Jamaica in 1831?

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

  11. Which action best demonstrates that enslaved people resisted actively?

    • Voting in elections
    • Paying taxes
    • Accepting rules
    • Plantation revolts

  12. Where did a successful slave revolt create the first free Black republic?

    • Jamaica
    • Haiti
    • Barbados
    • Cuba

  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 was Olaudah Equiano's writing so powerful in the campaign?

    • Government funding
    • Legal training
    • Fictional drama
    • Eyewitness testimony

  16. Which diagram was published to shock the public about slave ships?

    • Empire chart
    • Brookes diagram
    • Triangle map
    • Plantation layout

  17. What was the 'Sons of Africa' group?

    • Black campaign group
    • Trading company
    • Slave owner union
    • Royal navy ship

  18. Which fact weakens the argument that slavery ended purely due to money?

    • Rising transport costs
    • Decreasing crop yields
    • High plantation profits
    • Falling sugar prices

  19. What was the main difference between the 1807 and 1833 Acts?

    • Africa versus Britain
    • Tax versus wages
    • Trade versus slavery
    • Sugar versus cotton

  20. Why did Black abolitionists' testimonies carry such great weight?

    • Official pardons
    • Wealthy backing
    • Political office
    • First-hand experience

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