Revisions for Quiz 2: The Slave Trade and Haiti (copy)

During the Early Modern Era, this was the period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters, which increased the international demand for furs.

The Little Ice Age

This is a Native American community original from Indiana. In the 19th century, a group of them was forced to relocate in Oklahoma.

The Miami

The system in which enslaved people and different types of goods were traded between Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

The Triangular Trade

These items were important in the process of purchasing enslaved people on the West Coast of Africa.

Cowry shells and brass manilas

This was the Caribbean’s most important commodity. It was one of the reasons behind the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

Sugar

This was the section from the Triangular Trade in which slaves were taken from the African continent to the Americas.

The Middle Passage

They were the colonial administrative districts in which Spain and Portugal divided their territories in the Americas.

Viceroyalties

True/False

By the 18th century, the African continent became the primary source of slave labor for the plantation economies in the Americas.

True

True/False

Most enslaved people who were brought to the Americas came from the east coast of Africa.

False

True/False

Europeans were able to invade and colonize Africa around the same time that they colonized and built empires in the Americas.

False

True/False

During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, European traders were usually in charge of kidnapping people in the interior of Africa.

False

True/False

African enslaved people were forced to be naked during the Middle Passage.

True

Mention 5 things that were brought to the Americas because of the Columbian Exchange

weapons, coffee, distilled alcohol, horses, cats

What is the significance of the Fur Trade

brought many people to the new world, which then induced the development of the land and civilizations within it

What was the process of ‘Coasting’ during the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?

European slave traders stop at different points along the African coast to collect more slaves and take them to different destination

What do we know about the 18th century slave ships?

physical separation between men and women, men were usually in shackles

Mention 2 instances of slave resistance on the slave ship

jump from the side of the ship, refusing to eat, drink, whatever the crew asks them to do

Mention 2 instances of slave resistance in the Americas

“maroon” running away, killing yourself or your child, making music, capoeira(martial arts), maintain their own religious traditions

What was originally from the Americas

potatoes, maize, cocoa beans, turkeys, guinea pigs

What was originally from the “Old World”

measles, chickens, horses, olives, grapes, sugarcane, wheat