Exam 1

Question 1

From which area of africa did most of the slaves in the atlantic slave trade come

Answer 1

West Africa

Question 2

Before the discovery of the New World, what was Africa’s most valuable trade item with both the Arabs and Europeans?

Answer 2

gold

Question 3

When did slavery begin in Africa?

Answer 3

From its earliest history

Question 4

What is the first great West African state of which there is any record?

Answer 4

Ghana

Question 5

Which great West African state emerged as a power around 1235?

Answer 5

Mali

Question 6

What West African kingdom had its roots in the Sorko people, who lived in the Gao region of the Niger River?

Answer 6

Songhay

Question 7

Who consolidated and strengthened the kingdom of Mali?

Answer 7

Sundiata Keita

Question 8

What African leader made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324?

Answer 8

Mansa Musa

Question 9

What was the largest and most powerful state in the history of West Africa?

Answer 9

Songhay

Question 10

What was the earliest source of slave labor in the New World?

Answer 10

Mulattoes

Question 11

The use of white indentured labor in the New World was especially favored by the ___.

Answer 11

English

Question 12

Which of the following best identifies the primary reason Europeans ultimately decided upon the use of African slave labor in the New World?

Answer 12

Economic

Question 13

European slave-trading posts known as ________ were installed in fortifications along the African coast.

Answer 13

Factories

Question 14

Which of the following is the term for the “vague malady” of the slaves, typically including diarrhea, from which whites on board the slave ships were less likely to suffer?

Answer 14

Bloody Flux

Question 15

Which of the following represents the best current estimate of the number of Africans brought to America via the “middle passage”?

Answer 15

3 million

Question 16

Early in the 16th, which of the following European powers had almost an exclusive claim on the Caribbean islands?

Answer 16

Spain

Question 17

In the Caribbean islands of the 18th century, the growing discrepancy in the increasing slave populations versus the stable white populations prompted the adoption of various ________ by the European powers.

Answer 17

Slave Codes

Question 18

African slaves who had not been through the process of “seasoning” were called ____.

Answer 18

saltwater blacks

Question 19

The 17th century Portuguese had their largest New World foothold in which of the following present-day countries?

Answer 19

Brazil

Question 20

Most ________ slaves were allowed the latitude to read, write, and officially marry.

Answer 20

Catholic

Question 21

Which of the following countries or regions consumed the largest percentage of African slaves brought to the New World?

Answer 21

Brazil

Question 22

Which of the following describes a slave that had been born in the New World?

Answer 22

Creole

Question 23

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by which of the following groups?

Answer 23

Puritans

Question 24

The patriotic 1776 pamphlet common sense was written by

Answer 24

Thomas Paine

Question 25

Number of african americans who actively participated in revolutionary war

Answer 25

5,000