Empire, Slavery & Migration
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Introduction to Empire, Slavery and Migration
Build the core idea from scratch with gentle steps and lots of hints.
History · Beginner
5
questions · ~4 min · 3 hints each (−5 pts)
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What you'll learn
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- 1The British Empire was a huge collection of countries and territories around the world that Britain controlled or ruled, at its largest covering about a quarter of the globe.
- 2From the 1600s to the 1800s, British ships forcibly transported millions of enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean to work, mainly on plantations in the Caribbean and Americas.
- 3Abolition means the ending of slavery; the British Parliament banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery itself in most of the empire in 1833.
- 4After the Second World War, people from Caribbean countries, India, Pakistan and other former colonies were invited to migrate to Britain to help rebuild the country and fill labour shortages.
Question mix
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- Multiple choice×3
- True / False×1
- Fill the gap×1
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How it works
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This takes about 4 minutes.