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| 292449118 | Which of the following does NOT describe the Dutch West India Company? | ** a) it was never very profitable b) It seized sugar-producing areas in Brazil c) it shipped slaves to Brazil d) it paid stockholders huge dividends e) it was a private trading company | 0 | |
| 292449119 | Which area best illustrates the dramatic transformation that sugar brought to the 17th century caribbean? | e) Barbados | 1 | |
| 292449120 | In the 17th- century Caribbean, indentured servants cost ________ as much as slaves. | c) half as much | 2 | |
| 292449121 | How did France and England expand their Caribbean holdings? | c) by attacking older Spanish colonies | 3 | |
| 292449122 | The French plantation economies were considered "more diverse" because they also produced ______. | a) coffee and cacao | 4 | |
| 292449123 | Sugar plantations caused environmental damage through _______. | b) soil exhaustion and deforestation | 5 | |
| 292449124 | Where would slave children most likely be found working? | c) in "grass gangs" doing simple, lighter, work. | 6 | |
| 292449125 | In the 18th century, West Indian plantations were controlled by a plantocracy, a _______. | b) small number of rich men who owned the land and slaves. | 7 | |
| 292449126 | Men outnumbered women on Caribbean plantations because ____. | a) twice as many men were imported. | 8 | |
| 292449127 | "Drivers" were typically _____. | d) male slaves. | 9 | |
| 292449128 | Manumission permitted slaves to | c) purchase or receive their freedom from slavery. | 10 | |
| 292449129 | Life expectancy for 19th-century Brazilian male slaves was ____. | b) 23 years | 11 | |
| 292449130 | Most slaves died of _____. | b) disease | 12 | |
| 292449131 | Which was NOT a method used to curtail African cultural traditions by European planters? | a) Learning colonial languages b) converting to Christianity c) mixing slaves from different parts of Africa **d) mandatory primary education e) all of these | 13 | |
| 292449132 | Which maroon community first signed treaties recognizing their independent status as runaway slaves? | a) Jamaica | 14 | |
| 292449133 | To reduce the risks of overseas trading, companies ______. | a) bought insurance | 15 | |
| 292449134 | The English Navigation Acts in the 1660s were meant to ______. | a) confine trade to English ships and cargoes. | 16 | |
| 292449135 | While the British system of mercantilism was defined by the Navigation Acts, the French system used laws known as: | c) Exclusif | 17 | |
| 292449136 | The "clockwise" network of trade in the Atlantic was the: | e) Atlantic Circuit | 18 | |
| 292449137 | During the first 150 years after the European discovery of the Americans, how many Africans were transported in the Atlantic slave trade? | a) 800,000 | 19 | |
| 292449138 | During the "sugar boom" from 1650 to 1800, _________ slaves were transported. | d) 7.5 million | 20 | |
| 292449139 | What was the principal cause of mortality aboard Atlantic slave ships? | c) disease | 21 | |
| 292449140 | Africans who provided slaves to Europeans most often preferred to receive in return: | d) guns and textiles | 22 | |
| 292449141 | The African state most dependent on slave trade was: | b) Dahomey | 23 | |
| 292449142 | In the 18th-century, what was the major source of slaves in the interior of the Bight of Biafra? | a) Kidnapped people | 24 | |
| 292449143 | The greatest source for slaves for the Atlantic trade was from: | d) Angola | 25 | |
| 292449144 | Most slaves in the Islamic world were | c) soldiers and servants | 26 | |
| 292449145 | Islamic law prohibited the enslavement of: | d) Muslims | 27 | |
| 292449146 | The majority of AfFRICAN slaves in the Islamic world were: | d) women for concubines and servants | 28 | |
| 292449147 | Both Muslims and Europeans obtained slaves from sub-Saharan Africa, but _____. | a) the Islamic trade was much smaller | 29 | |
| 292449148 | Which is not true of population loss in Africa as a result of the slave trade? | a) areas near the Slave Coast lost a disproportionate number of people. **b) Population loss was uniform across all areas of west Africa c) Even at the peak of the trade, the population of Africa remained large. d) New foods from the Americans helped to offset population losses due to the slave trade e) Population loss was reduced by the fact that more men than women were traded into slavery. | 30 |
