connect the dots

Question 1

African diaspora

Answer 1

The movement of African people through their culture, ideas, and language.

Question 2

Tech innovations

Answer 2

Iron tools, farming techniques, pottery making, and new foods.

Question 3

Climate (region/location)

Answer 3

Desert, Mediterranean, rainforest, grasslands, Sahel, Savanna, Sahara

Question 4

Songhai (location/trade port)

Answer 4

Used their power of gov to increase trade in West Africa across the trans-Saharan trade routes. (Spurred the expansion of new links)

Question 5

Kongo Portugal relations (event)

Answer 5

solidified important trading relationships with Portugal which helped increase status in the eyes of Europeans

Question 6

Queen Njiga of Ndongo- Matamba (people)

Answer 6

She challenged Portugal and became recognized as a powerful leader in the eyes of Europeans

Question 7

Invaders

Question 8

Atlantic slave trade (event)

Answer 8

the purchase, transportation, and sale of enslaved people from Africa. (12.5 million Africans were forced onto the Middle Passage).

Question 9

Conditions of slave ships

Answer 9

The conditions were terrible, with hundreds of people crowded together with little airflow and even less sanitation. (smallpox, depression, and sexual exploitation).

Question 10

Charleston S.C (location)

Answer 10

Number 1 place where slaves were brought after the Atlantic slave trade

Question 11

Slave auction

Answer 11

Seasoning = shower, oil for healthy skin, hair maintenance. Forced to run, check teeth

Question 12

religion

Answer 12

spoke to their enslaved condition, and nurtured their growing demands for freedom and equality.

Question 13

Solomon Northup (people)

Answer 13

tricked and forced into slave auction. (born free)

Question 14

Gender roles

Answer 14

usually worked in the field, as butlers and coachmen, while women did laundry, sewing, working in chamber mazes, and tended to midwives.

Question 15

Laws of Virginia Act XII

Answer 15

Negro women’s children to serve according to the condition of the mother.

Question 16

Dred Scott

Answer 16

Sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters. denied the legality of black citizenship in America.

Question 17

Louisiana

Answer 17

The African diaspora has influenced New Orleans dishes such as gumbo and also brought Louisiana Voodoo to the state. influenced the music of Louisiana and helped develop jazz, blues, hip-hop, and R&B.