2025 test · Question 75 of 128
What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
Answers from the USCIS list
Give one of these answers.
- Africans
- People from Africa
Our explanation
European countries took people from Africa to the Americas and sold them as slaves. An enslaved person is forced to work with no freedom. The first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia, arrived in 1619.
Remember it
Lived here first: Native Americans. Taken and sold as slaves: Africans.
Source
USCIS 2025 Study Guide (M-1175) p. 45. Quote: “took people from Africa to the Americas and sold them as slaves.” … “The first group of enslaved Africans were brought to Jamestown in 1619.”
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