1.9 African Slave Trade

These flashcards cover key concepts related to the African slave trade and its economic, social, and historical implications as discussed in the lecture on AP European history.

Plantation Economy

An agricultural system focused on the growing of cash crops for export, primarily in warm regions with year-round growing seasons.

Mercantilism

An economic system that emphasizes accumulating wealth through the acquisition of precious metals and a favorable balance of trade.

Cash Crops

Crops produced for commercial value rather than for use by the growers, such as sugarcane and coffee.

Middle Passage

The transatlantic journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the Americas, known for its brutal and inhumane conditions.

European Colonization

The period during the 16th and 17th centuries when European powers established colonies in the New World in pursuit of wealth and resources.

Enslaved Africans

Individuals captured and forced into labor for European colonial plantations, enduring harsh treatment and conditions.

Indigenous Populations

Local native peoples affected by European colonization, often forced into labor but significantly diminished by disease and escape efforts.

Economic Incentive

Financial motivation for actions; in this context, the drive to maximize profits from enslaved labor on plantations.

cause for the rise of slave trade

establishment of a plantain economy in the new world (indigenous people dying off too fast and could run) more demand = need more supply = need more work force