SHS History · Year 2
European Arrival and the Slave Trade in Ghana practice questions
The arrival of European powers on the Gold Coast (Portuguese, Dutch, British, Danes and others), their forts and castles, the political/economic/religious/scientific motives for exploration, the trade items exchanged, the shift from gold and ivory to trade in humans, the organisation of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (the Triangular Trade), and its effects on the Gold Coast.
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- Question 1Recall
The voyage across the Atlantic during which captured Africans were transported to the Americas, generally taking six to eight weeks, is known as
- athe Legitimate Trade
- bthe Middle Passage
- cthe Assiento voyage
- dthe Sagrenti crossing
- Question 2Extended thinking
A historian analysing the shift from gold/ivory trade to the slave trade would identify the discovery of the New World (the Americas) around 1492 as significant mainly because it
- aended all European interest in the Gold Coast
- bcreated a demand for cheap plantation and mining labour that transformed the purpose of enslaved people from domestic work to slave labour abroad
- cled immediately to the abolition of slavery
- dcaused a permanent halt in gold mining on the Gold Coast
- Question 3Skills & concepts
The Dutch broke the Portuguese monopoly on the Gold Coast when they took control of Elmina Castle in 1637 and captured Axim (Fort St. Anthony) in
- a1661
- b1642
- c1699
- d1713
- Question 4Recall
The overriding, and earliest, motive that drove European exploration of the Gold Coast was
- ascientific curiosity about lands beyond Europe
- ba wish to bond with earlier Christians in Africa
- ca desire to end Muslim domination of North Africa
- dtrade, particularly the desire for gold and an alternative sea route to India
- Question 5Skills & concepts
The legendary Christian priest-king whom Prince Henry the Navigator hoped to find an alliance with, in the belief this would help end Islamic influence in North Africa, was
- aPrester John
- bKing John II
- cNaa Gbewaa
- dAl Hajj Muhammad Mustafa
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