AP World History Chapter 18 Flashcards

14058649845	What was the principal cause of mortality aboard Atlantic slave ships?	Disease	0
14058649846	On most islands, the percentage of slaves in the population was	90 percent	1
14058649847	The cultivation and production of sugar can best be described as	requiring farm as well as factory production methods.	2
14058649848	Which maroon community first signed treaties recognizing their independent status as runaway slaves?	Jamaican	3
14058649849	The majority of African slaves in the Islamic world were:	The majority of African slaves in the Islamic world were:	4
14058649850	The second leg of the Atlantic Circuit, transporting slaves across the Atlantic to plantation colonies, was known as:	the Middle Passage	5
14058649851	Most slaves died of	disease	6
14058649852	Which area best illustrates the dramatic transformation that sugar brought to the 17th century Caribbean?	Barbados	7
14058649853	Most slaves taken from Africa were	prisoners of war.	8
14058649854	"Drivers" were typically	male slaves.	9
14058649855	Generally, the Atlantic African slave trade was based on a partnership between	European and African elites.	10
14058649856	Mercantilism is	a government policy that protects trade and demands the accumulation of gold and silver.	11
14058649857	The expansion of sugar plantations in the West Indies required	a sharp increase in the African slave trade.	12
14058649858	Africans who provided slaves to Europeans most often preferred to receive in return	guns and textiles	13
14058649859	The greatest source for slaves for the Atlantic trade was from:	Angola	14
14058649860	To reduce the risks of overseas trading, companies	bought insurance.	15
14058649861	Which was NOT a method used to curtail African cultural traditions by European planters?	Mandatory primary education.	16
14058649862	Both Muslims and Europeans obtained slaves from sub-Saharan Africa, but	the Islamic trade was much smaller.	17
14058649863	Which of the following is true regarding the Atlantic slave trade?	Europeans gained far more wealth than Africans.	18
14058649864	Sugar plantations caused environmental damage through	soil exhaustion and deforestation.	19
14058649865	How did France and England expand their Caribbean holdings?	By attacking older Spanish colonies.	20
14058649866	Plantation slaves were motivated to work hard	to escape punishment.	21
14058649867	In the seventeenth-century Caribbean, indentured servants cost ____ as slaves.	half as much	22
14058649868	Among the planter elite in Saint Domingue, where would free blacks rank in the social hierarchy?	Fourth, after free whites	23
14058649869	Men outnumbered women on Caribbean plantations because	twice as many men were imported.	24
14058649870	In the eighteenth century, what was the major source of slaves in the interior of the Bight of Biafra?	Kidnapped people	25
14058649871	Although tobacco was a New World plant long used by Amerindians,	it was Europeans who began growing the crop on large plantations.	26
14058649872	glish Navigation Acts in the 1660s were meant to	confine trade to English ships and cargoes.	27
14058649873	The "clockwise" network of trade in the Atlantic was the	Atlantic Circuit.	28
14058649874	Most slaves in the Islamic world were	soldiers and servants.	29
14058649875	In the eighteenth century, West Indian plantations were controlled by a plantocracy,	a small number of rich men who owned the land and slaves.	30
14058649876	The French plantation economies were considered "more diverse" because they also produced	coffee and cacao	31
14058649877	During the "sugar boom" from 1650 to 1800, ____ slaves were transported.	7.5 million	32
14058649878	Life expectancy for nineteenth-century Brazilian male slaves was	23 years	33
14058649879	ring the first 150 years after the European discovery of the Americas, how many Africans were transported in the Atlantic slave trade?	800,000	34
14058649880	While the British system of mercantilism was defined by the Navigation Acts, the French system used laws known as:	Exclusif	35
14058649881	Chartered companies were	private investors with trade monopolies in colonies.	36
14058649882	Where would slave children most likely be found working?	in "grass gangs" doing simple, lighter work.	37