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14058649845What was the principal cause of mortality aboard Atlantic slave ships?Disease0
14058649846On most islands, the percentage of slaves in the population was90 percent1
14058649847The cultivation and production of sugar can best be described asrequiring farm as well as factory production methods.2
14058649848Which maroon community first signed treaties recognizing their independent status as runaway slaves?Jamaican3
14058649849The majority of African slaves in the Islamic world were:The majority of African slaves in the Islamic world were:4
14058649850The second leg of the Atlantic Circuit, transporting slaves across the Atlantic to plantation colonies, was known as:the Middle Passage5
14058649851Most slaves died ofdisease6
14058649852Which area best illustrates the dramatic transformation that sugar brought to the 17th century Caribbean?Barbados7
14058649853Most slaves taken from Africa wereprisoners of war.8
14058649854"Drivers" were typicallymale slaves.9
14058649855Generally, the Atlantic African slave trade was based on a partnership betweenEuropean and African elites.10
14058649856Mercantilism isa government policy that protects trade and demands the accumulation of gold and silver.11
14058649857The expansion of sugar plantations in the West Indies requireda sharp increase in the African slave trade.12
14058649858Africans who provided slaves to Europeans most often preferred to receive in returnguns and textiles13
14058649859The greatest source for slaves for the Atlantic trade was from:Angola14
14058649860To reduce the risks of overseas trading, companiesbought insurance.15
14058649861Which was NOT a method used to curtail African cultural traditions by European planters?Mandatory primary education.16
14058649862Both Muslims and Europeans obtained slaves from sub-Saharan Africa, butthe Islamic trade was much smaller.17
14058649863Which of the following is true regarding the Atlantic slave trade?Europeans gained far more wealth than Africans.18
14058649864Sugar plantations caused environmental damage throughsoil exhaustion and deforestation.19
14058649865How did France and England expand their Caribbean holdings?By attacking older Spanish colonies.20
14058649866Plantation slaves were motivated to work hardto escape punishment.21
14058649867In the seventeenth-century Caribbean, indentured servants cost ____ as slaves.half as much22
14058649868Among the planter elite in Saint Domingue, where would free blacks rank in the social hierarchy?Fourth, after free whites23
14058649869Men outnumbered women on Caribbean plantations becausetwice as many men were imported.24
14058649870In the eighteenth century, what was the major source of slaves in the interior of the Bight of Biafra?Kidnapped people25
14058649871Although tobacco was a New World plant long used by Amerindians,it was Europeans who began growing the crop on large plantations.26
14058649872glish Navigation Acts in the 1660s were meant toconfine trade to English ships and cargoes.27
14058649873The "clockwise" network of trade in the Atlantic was theAtlantic Circuit.28
14058649874Most slaves in the Islamic world weresoldiers and servants.29
14058649875In the eighteenth century, West Indian plantations were controlled by a plantocracy,a small number of rich men who owned the land and slaves.30
14058649876The French plantation economies were considered "more diverse" because they also producedcoffee and cacao31
14058649877During the "sugar boom" from 1650 to 1800, ____ slaves were transported.7.5 million32
14058649878Life expectancy for nineteenth-century Brazilian male slaves was23 years33
14058649879ring the first 150 years after the European discovery of the Americas, how many Africans were transported in the Atlantic slave trade?800,00034
14058649880While the British system of mercantilism was defined by the Navigation Acts, the French system used laws known as:Exclusif35
14058649881Chartered companies wereprivate investors with trade monopolies in colonies.36
14058649882Where would slave children most likely be found working?in "grass gangs" doing simple, lighter work.37

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