Britain and the Caribbean

• Which British port enjoyed a monopoly when it came to being allowed to trade slaves from 1663 to 1698?

  London
• Lloyds of London benefited from the slave trade because it helped to provide which service to the owners of slave ships?

  Insurance
• What did David and Alexander Barclay create thanks to profits made as slave traders?

  Bank
• Which port developed partly as a result of the fact that its geographical position meant it faced out into the Atlantic?

  Bristol
• Traders from which port were known as entrepreneurs who built up good relationships with contacts in West Africa and the Caribbean?

  Bristol
• Which slave port developed partly as a result of the fact that berthing fees were low so ships could unload at all states of the tide?

  Liverpool
• Which slave port developed partly as a result of the fact that it was cheap to hire crews as the local authorities did not prevent the hiring of young or inexperienced sailors?

  Liverpool
• Which slave port developed partly as a result of the fact that it was close to the Isle of Man where trade goods could be imported without the imposition of duties (making them cheaper)?

  Liverpool
• Which port on the Clyde developed thanks to the creation of sugar refineries and the import of slave-grown tobacco?

  Glasgow
• Where did Richard Oswald (a Scot) have a slave fort in Sierra Leone?

  Bunce Island
• Slave-grown crops such as cotton, indigo and rice were sent to Britain. True or False?


  True
• What did the government imposed on slave grown goods that were imported into Britain?

  Taxes
• Which slave port saw the development of the West India docks to cater for the slave trade?

  London
• Factories making pots and pans and glass ornaments developed in which slave port?


  Bristol
• Name a Scottish school, in Clackmannanshire, that was founded as a result of an endowment from a slave trader

  Dollar Academy
• The Museum of Modern Art, in Glasgow, was originally the townhouse of a tobacco baron. What was his surname?

  Cunningham
• The slave trade was beneficial to the British government. What could they raise when slave-grown goods like sugar were imported?

  Taxes
• Where were the mills that developed as a result of the import of slave-grown cotton?

  Lancashire
• In which slave port did the linen, glass, leather and cotton industries grow thanks to the slave trade?

  Liverpool
• The arms industry in which city benefited from the slave trade?

  Birmingham
• What was the main impact of the slave trade on the physical appearance of Caribbean islands?

  Deforestation
• All of the profits from the slave trade were sent straight back to Britain and were not invested in the Caribbean. True or False?


  True
• Reliance on a small number of cash crops like sugar made the economy of the Caribbean very unstable. True or False?


  True
• Millions of West Africans were transported to the Caribbean to become slaves. True or false?


  True
• There is no longer a sense of injustice or demands for compensation from the modern day descendants of slaves in the Caribbean. True or False?


  False
• New types of animals such as dogs, horses, cattle and pigs were introduced to the Caribbean. True or False?


  True
• Which group in the Caribbean was wiped out by diseases such as typhus and smallpox due to the fact they had no immunities to them?

  Arawaks
• What was the title given to the man in charge of each British-run island in the Caribbean?

  Governor
• Which assembly had the power to make laws or raise taxes in the Caribbean?

  Legislative
• What was the name the organisation that all white men in the Caribbean aged 16-60 had to join?

  Militia
• What was the title given to the man who oversaw the day to day running of a plantation if the owner chose to live in Britain?

  Overseer