100226308 | Slav | any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language | 0 | |
100226309 | Madeira | The Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama rounded the tip of Africa and colonized the Atlantic Islands, one of which was Madeira. Sugar plantations came to the Atlantic in 1446 from Sicily and many slaves were brought over to work them. Columbus spent a decade in Madeira. | 1 | |
100226310 | Barbados | easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles north of Venezuela | 2 | |
100226311 | Martinique | an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands | 3 | |
100226312 | Mali | a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa | 4 | |
100226313 | Mansa Musa | this Mali king brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 the 1337; he was the most powerful king in west africa | 5 | |
100226314 | Songhai | a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai people in Mali and Niger | 6 | |
100226315 | Olaudah Equino | Slave from Nigeria who was sent to America. He bought his freedom after ten years and was dedicated to promoting antislavery. | 7 | |
100226316 | John Hawkins | an English merchant who defined Spanish trade and brought european goos and african slaves to the spanish settlements in the americas; sold goods at a good profiit | 8 | |
100226317 | Royal African Company | A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. | 9 | |
100226318 | Angol | English | 10 | |
100226319 | Gold Coast | Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | 11 | |
100226320 | Panyaring | kidnapping slaves | 12 | |
100226321 | Middle Passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade | 13 | |
100226322 | tidewater | the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia | 14 | |
100226323 | tobacco colonies | Chesapeake region, extending from Delaware south through Maryland and Virginia into the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina | 15 | |
100226324 | Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney | South Carolina planter who made indigo a major cash crop for the southern colonies. | 16 | |
100226325 | James Oglethorpe | Georgia formally founded in 1733. The ablest of the founders was the dynamic soldier-statesman James Oglethorpe, who became keenly interested in prison reform after one of his friends did in a debtors' jail. Repelled Spanish attacks. | 17 | |
100226326 | Robert Sieur de La Saffe | ... | 18 | |
100226327 | John Woolman | a Quaker who wrote the first antislavery pamphlet | 19 | |
100226328 | acculturation | the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | 20 | |
100226329 | Stono Rebellion | a 1739 uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws | 21 | |
100226330 | Adams Smith | wrote WEALTH OF NATIONS which leads to capitalism and laissez faire and division of labor | 22 | |
100226331 | Mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 23 | |
100226332 | King William's War | (1689-1697) Small war between French and English that had small battles fought in Northern New England. | 24 | |
100226333 | Queen Anne's War | (1702-13 )war england fights france and spain in the carribean and new france aka the war of spanish succession | 25 | |
100226334 | Peace of Utrecht | Ended Queen Anne's War. Undermined France's power in North America by giving Britain the Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia. | 26 | |
100226335 | War of Jenkin's Ear | It began because of Spanish atrocities to British merchants in the West Indies, Between Britain and Spain- Carribean Sea and Georgia- ended with Louisbourg back to France | 27 | |
100226336 | King George's War | 1744 and 1748. England and Spain were in conflict with French. New England captured French Bastion at Louisburg on Cape Brenton Island. Had to abandon it once peace treaty ended conflict. | 28 | |
100226337 | Casa de Contratacion | formed to carry out the Spanish commercial interests, it became the most influential institution of the Spanish Empire | 29 | |
100226338 | Navigation Acts | Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade | 30 | |
100226339 | Wool Act of 1699 | Prohibited the export (but not the manufacture for local sale) of colonial woolen cloth. Directed at Irish workers. | 31 | |
100226340 | Hat Act of 1732 | forbade the exporting of hats to England, to foreign countries, or from one colony to another(date in answer) | 32 | |
100226341 | Iron Act of 1750 | prohibited metal processing in colonies | 33 | |
100226342 | commodity money | money that takes the form of a commodity with intrinsic value | 34 | |
100226343 | Walpole | regarded as the first British Prime Minister, his source of power was the King rather than the Parliament | 35 | |
100226344 | Salutory neglect | British policy of not strictly enforcing laws meant to keep Colonies obedient to Britian | 36 | |
100226345 | Molasses Act of 1733 | Taxation on molasses that was too high to pay and it encouraged smuggling. | 37 | |
100226346 | triangular trade | A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Aferica sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa | 38 |
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