ap world history Flashcards

5027614154	atlantic system	The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin.	0
5027620730	chartered company	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.	1
5027634674	Dutch West India Company	Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.	2
5027647652	plantocracy	In the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the eighteenth century.	3
5027653740	driver	A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.	4
5027681642	seasoning	An often difficult period of adjustment to new climates, disease environments, and work routines, such as that experienced by slaves newly arrived in the Americas.	5
5027686019	manumission	A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.	6
5027690368	maroon	A slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of a community of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America.	7
5027696448	capitalism	An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.	8
5027704080	mercantilism	An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought	9
5027712067	Royal Africa Company	A group of investors began to export slaves directly to Virginia (no longer leftovers) monopoly until 1698; competition means lower prices, thus more planters were buying slaves.	10
5027717438	Great Circuit	The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.	11
5027722700	Middle Passage	The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.	12