155687329 | What country came in contact with the African slave trade first? | Portugal | 0 | |
155687330 | Where did the Portuguese begin to develop plantations? | fin Azores, Cape Verde Islands, and Brazil | 1 | |
157038815 | How did the existing slave trade in Africa change with European arrivals? | -African kings and elite sought to profit from selling their neighbors as demands gew -adopted new military techniques | 2 | |
157038816 | What military techniques did the African kings adopt in order to capture more slaves? | cavalry firearms | 3 | |
157038817 | How were most slaves caught? | prisoners of war | 4 | |
157038818 | What were the two cash crops that required the most slaves? | tobacco and sugar | 5 | |
157038819 | What two countries were the most involved with tobacco? | Britain and France | 6 | |
157038820 | Where was Tobacco first grown, and where was it grown later? | in the Caribbean, then in Virgina | 7 | |
157038821 | What crop replaced tobacco in the Caribbean? | sugar | 8 | |
157038822 | Chartered Companies | Groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies. | 9 | |
157038823 | What place was the #1 sugar producer in the 1700s? | Caribbean | 10 | |
157038824 | what place was the #1 sugar produer in 1600? | Brazil | 11 | |
157038825 | What happened to the British planters as a result of the growing sugar production? | became rich and politically powerful | 12 | |
157038826 | 1620 | Dutch involvement with Sugar production in Brazil | 13 | |
157038827 | Dutch West India Company | Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa. goal: acheive independence from Spain and hassle Spanish commerse overseas | 14 | |
157042509 | Where was sugar originally produced? | Middle East | 15 | |
157042510 | Sugar | considered a luxury good rising middle class wanted it used to sweeten new beverages prices declined with new production | 16 | |
157042511 | what was the effect of the industrial revolution on sugar production? | created more demand because the workers needed the calories and the warmth on jobs in factories | 17 | |
157042512 | What happened to indentured servants? | price of land rose up so much that they no longer existed | 18 | |
157042513 | why use slaves? | -no indentured servants -ultimately became cheaper | 19 | |
157042514 | cons of using slaves? | -high mortality/low birth rates -changes of rebellions | 20 | |
157042515 | Atlantic Circuit | Europe to Africa Africa to America Americas to Europe technically, could make a profit on every leg, but in practice very risky | 21 | |
157042516 | What was brought from Europe to Africa | manufactured goods (guns), cotton textules (from India) | 22 | |
157042517 | What was brought from Africa to the Americas? | slaves Middle Passage | 23 | |
157042518 | What was brought from the Americas to Europe? | export crops, mining products, plantation goods | 24 | |
157042519 | 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 | 25 | |
157042520 | In the Triangular trade, what did N. England merchants sell to Africa, the Caribbeans, and to N. America? | Africa: rum, metalware, gin, firearms Caribbeans: slaves N. America: molasses, rum | 26 | |
157042521 | Middle Passage | The part of the Atlantic Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas. | 27 | |
157042522 | Why did so many slaves die during the Middle Passage? | slaves were packed into boats as tightly as possible bad hygiene chained disease | 28 | |
157042523 | what happened as a result of the Middle Passage? | because so many slaves died, conditions on the boats were improved so there wouldn't be as much financial loss | 29 | |
157042524 | Who controlled the slave trade? | 1. British 2. Portuguese 3. French 4. Dutch 5. N. Americans chartered trading companies | 30 |
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and African Kingdom Flashcards
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