2008 civics test · Question 60 · Colonial Period and Independence
What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
Any one of these answers is accepted
- Africans
- people from Africa
What this means
The group of people taken and sold as slaves were Africans, or people from Africa.
For more than two centuries, millions of Africans were captured, shipped across the Atlantic, and sold into slavery in the American colonies and later the United States. Their forced labor built much of the early economy, especially in the South, and slavery was not ended until the Civil War in the 1860s.
Both tests ask this the same way. Answer: Africans, or people from Africa.
Why this is on the test
This question acknowledges a painful part of American history, the slave trade, and both tests ask who was taken and sold as slaves.
How this question is asked
On the 2008 civics test, the officer asks up to 10 of the 100 questions out loud and you pass by answering 6 correctly. You answer in your own words. There is no multiple choice and nothing to write down for the civics portion.
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