Question 75 of 128
What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
Official USCIS answers
- Africans
- People from Africa
Why this is the answer
The official answer refers to the transatlantic slave trade, which forcibly took people from Africa and sold them in the Americas, including colonial America. Colonial laws and the economy increasingly relied on enslaved African labor.
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Source: USCIS, 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version), M-1778.