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Question 60

What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

  1. Europeans fleeing war
  2. Irish indentured servants
  3. Chinese laborers
  4. AfricansCorrect answer

Official answer

  • Africans
  • people from Africa

Explanation

The transatlantic slave trade forcibly brought people from Africa to the Americas and sold them as chattel slaves. The other groups arrived through migration or indenture, which was a contract for a fixed term rather than lifelong hereditary slavery.

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