Grade 7 History Term 2 Test + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for Term 2 Social Sciences: History with this comprehensive 50-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1 hour and focuses on the Transatlantic Slave Trade, including the experiences of enslaved people, resistance to slavery, the Underground Railroad and the economic impact of the slave trade.
The test covers:
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade
- West Africa and the capture and sale of enslaved people
- Slave labour on American plantations
- Agriculture and plantation economies
- Transportation of enslaved people by ship
- The journey from West Africa to America
- Death marches and coastal slave markets
- Conditions aboard slave ships
- Family separation
- Disease, overcrowding and poor sanitation
- Triangular Trade
- Trade between Africa, America and Europe
- Raw agricultural products and manufactured goods
- Slave resistance
- Passive resistance, sluggishness and arson
- Nat Turner's Revolt
- The Amistad
- Abolitionists and anti-slavery movements
- Harriet Tubman
- The Underground Railroad
- Safe houses and secret routes
- Escape to free states and Canada
- The role of singing in the lives of enslaved people
- Working and living conditions on plantations
- Punishment and lack of rights
- Hope and freedom
- Impact of the slave trade on West Africa
- Depopulation and disruption of local economies
- Effects on traditional industries and political systems
- Economic gains for America and Britain
- Growth of the sugar, cotton and tobacco industries
Total: 50 marks | Duration: 1 hour | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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