Exam 1 Flashcards
From which area of africa did most of the slaves in the atlantic slave trade come
West Africa
Before the discovery of the New World, what was Africa’s most valuable trade item with both the Arabs and Europeans?
gold
When did slavery begin in Africa?
From its earliest history
What is the first great West African state of which there is any record?
Ghana
Which great West African state emerged as a power around 1235?
Mali
What West African kingdom had its roots in the Sorko people, who lived in the Gao region of the Niger River?
Songhay
Who consolidated and strengthened the kingdom of Mali?
Sundiata Keita
What African leader made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324?
Mansa Musa
What was the largest and most powerful state in the history of West Africa?
Songhay
What was the earliest source of slave labor in the New World?
Mulattoes
The use of white indentured labor in the New World was especially favored by the ___.
English
Which of the following best identifies the primary reason Europeans ultimately decided upon the use of African slave labor in the New World?
Economic
European slave-trading posts known as ________ were installed in fortifications along the African coast.
Factories
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?
Bloody Flux
Which of the following represents the best current estimate of the number of Africans brought to America via the “middle passage”?
3 million
Early in the 16th, which of the following European powers had almost an exclusive claim on the Caribbean islands?
Spain
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.
Slave Codes
African slaves who had not been through the process of “seasoning” were called ____.
saltwater blacks
The 17th century Portuguese had their largest New World foothold in which of the following present-day countries?
Brazil
Most ________ slaves were allowed the latitude to read, write, and officially marry.
Catholic
Which of the following countries or regions consumed the largest percentage of African slaves brought to the New World?
Brazil
Which of the following describes a slave that had been born in the New World?
Creole
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by which of the following groups?
Puritans
The patriotic 1776 pamphlet common sense was written by
Thomas Paine
Number of african americans who actively participated in revolutionary war
5,000
