Chapter 18 Vocabulary | AP World History Flashcards

8573803013	Atlantic System	The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic System.	0
8573848639	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
8573803014	Dutch West India Company	Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa	2
8573806059	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
8573848640	Driver	A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave going did its work on a plantation.	4
8573848641	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
8573850686	Manumission	A grant of legal slave freedom to an individual slave	6
8573850687	Maroon	A slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America	7
8573850688	Capitalism	The economic system of large financial institutions -banks, stock exchanges, investment companies - that first developed in early modern. A system of free trade with less regulation.	8
8573850689	Mercantilism	European government policies of 16th century, 17th century, and 18th centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland.	9
8573853423	Royal African Company	A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa	10
8573853424	Great Circuit	The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system	11
8573862661	Middle Passage	The part of the Atlantic Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the ATlantic to the Americas	12
8573862662	Songhai	A people, language, kingdom , and empire in Western Sudan in West Africa. Stretched from Atlantic to the land of Hausa	13
8573862663	Bornu	A powerful West African Kingdom of the southern edge of the Sahara in the central Sudan. Which was important in trans-Saharan trade.	14
8573868939	Navigation Acts	Requirements in trade that forced an entity to trade with Britain	15
8574103652	Grands Blancs	Slave owners	16
8574146695	New Amsterdam	The region that later became New York	17