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| 7461648940 | tobacco | a crop used in ceremonies by Amerindian's and smoked in a pipe. Europeans began to grow this crop on large plantations for consumption | 0 | |
| 7461688760 | chartered companies | groups of private investors that pay a fee in exchange for a trade monopoly in the colonies | 1 | |
| 7461761966 | Dutch West India Company | trading company that took over sugar producing plantations in Brazil, shipped slaves to Brazil, payed stock-holders dividends and used private enterprise | 2 | |
| 7461792558 | sugar; African | expansion into the West Indies of the _________ plantation required more labor so there was a sharp increase in _____ slave trade | 3 | |
| 7461853428 | tobacco, sugar | the economy changed from depending largely on __________ to________ | 4 | |
| 7461855500 | 3 | In Barbados the population of enslaved Africans was _x more than Europeans | 5 | |
| 7461895373 | Barbados | most wealthy and populous colony of England's american colonies | 6 | |
| 7461908528 | Barbados | ____________ and other west Indian colonies surpassed Brazil as the world's principal source of sugar | 7 | |
| 7461921000 | indentured servants | poor men who came to Americas and gained land by working off passage, free at end of service, cost half as much as African slaves | 8 | |
| 7461930370 | sugar; African | Rising ___________ prices helped the West Indian sugar planters afford _________ slaves | 9 | |
| 7461938911 | 7 | slaves typically lived for _ years after their arrival while indentured servants could be freed after 3-4 years | 10 | |
| 7461973363 | France, England | _________ and ___________ expanded Caribbean holdings by attacking the Spanish (pirates and force) | 11 | |
| 7461986432 | farm; factory | sugar production was hard work because it required a ________ and a ________ to refine it | 12 | |
| 7462006820 | French; coffee,cacao | the ________ were more diverse than other countries because they produced _____ and ___________ | 13 | |
| 7462035557 | soil exhaustion, deforestation | ______ ________ and ___________ were 2 environmental damages of sugar plantations | 14 | |
| 7462044470 | grass gangs | children slaves did the easier work and were put into groups called "______ ________" | 15 | |
| 7462050518 | 90% | on most islands, _______% of the population was made up of slaves | 16 | |
| 7462052375 | plantocracy | the rich men who owned the slaves and land | 17 | |
| 7462567533 | men; women | _______ outnumbered _______ on plantations | 18 | |
| 7462575781 | slave driver | a privileged male slave who made sure the gang completed their work | 19 | |
| 7462586564 | eat | slaves worked sun-up to sun-down with a short break to __ | 20 | |
| 7462605245 | whipping | slaves had harsh punishment, typically ____________, for offenses such as malingering, illness or fatigue | 21 | |
| 7462633872 | sundays | slaves were given________ off so they could take care of their own homes and families | 22 | |
| 7462638565 | 23 | the life expectancy of a male slave was about __ years | 23 | |
| 7462642597 | disease | most slaves died of ___________ | 24 | |
| 7462651282 | colonial; Christianity; Africa | In an attempt to curtail African traditions in the colonies, slaves had to learn __________ language, convert to _____________, and were mixed with slaves from other parts of __________ | 25 | |
| 7462687418 | manumission | granting or buying of freedom to an individual slave | 26 | |
| 7462717752 | great whites, little whites, free blacks | the social hierarchy was made of 3 tiers: the ___________, the _________ and _________ ____________ | 27 | |
| 7462739574 | children | some slave women were freed if their master had _________ by them | 28 | |
| 7462743257 | maroon | runaway slaves | 29 | |
| 7462746288 | Jamaican | __________ maroons were the 1st to sign treaties with their overlords | 30 | |
| 7462772461 | insurance | to reduce the risk of overseas trade, they purchased ____________- | 31 | |
| 7462778420 | mercantilism | ____________ promoted trade between a country and its colonies; it protects trade and the accumulation of gold and silver; colonies traded only with their mother country and force was used to secure exclusive relations | 32 | |
| 7462822093 | capitalism | economic system of large financial institutions (banks, stocks exchanges, investment companies) that first developed in early modern Europe | 33 | |
| 7462838134 | Navigation Acts | confined trade to English ships and cargos in British colonies | 34 | |
| 7462857386 | Atlantic Circuit | the network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system | 35 | |
| 7462867366 | Middle Passage | the part of the Atlantic circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas | 36 | |
| 7462882315 | 800,000, 7.5 | over _________________ slaves were transported across the Atlantic and this number rose to _._ million slaves during the sugar boom | 37 | |
| 7462888949 | disease | the principal cause of death in the Middle Passage was ___________ | 38 | |
| 7462926510 | guns, textiles | Africans that provided slaves to the Europeans received both ______ and ___________ | 39 | |
| 7462935995 | Dahomey | ________ was most dependent on the slave trade of all the African colonies because they strengthened their military by firearms | 40 | |
| 7462950759 | Bight of Biafra | most slaves were kidnapped from this area | 41 | |
| 7462957911 | Angola | majority of slaves came from _________ | 42 | |
| 7462957912 | Africans | _________ were complicit in selling slaves to the traders | 43 | |
| 7462965541 | soldiers, servants | Islamic slave trade was based upon 2 jobs : ________ or _________ | 44 | |
| 7462987140 | concubines | women slaves worked as either __________ or entertainers | 45 | |
| 7462989695 | Shariya law | __________ ________ prohibited the enslavement of other Muslims, but this did not always hold true | 46 | |
| 7463015243 | Sahara; smaller | Islamic slave trade south of the ________ was much ________ in volume that the European taking of slaves | 47 | |
| 7463024002 | slave coast; large | areas closest to the _________ ________ lost the largest amount of people, but African population as a whole remained ___________ | 48 | |
| 7463030442 | foods | the bringing in of new ________ to Africa offset the loss of population --> bananas, coconuts, limes | 49 | |
| 7463040621 | men; women | more _____ than ________ were traded into slavery | 50 | |
| 7463047421 | Europeans | The ________ gained much more wealth from slave trade, vent though the trade had 2 sides | 51 |
