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Official question #75US Citizenship Test
What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
Correct answer
Africans
Also accepted: Africans · People from Africa
Why
Millions of people were taken from Africa and sold into slavery in the Americas. Slavery in the United States ended with the 13th Amendment in 1865, after the Civil War.
Answer choices
- AAfricans
- BThe British
- CThe French
- DThe Dutch