Atlantic slave trade

When did the Atlantic Slave Trade end? 1) the 1800s 2) the 1500s 3) the 1600s 4)The 1700s

1) 1800's

How did the Atlantic Slave Trade affect Africa's future? 1)Africa's economy collapsed 2)Africa's villages ceased to exist 3)Africa's population increased 4)Africans abandoned their cities

1) Africas economy collapsed

-Cutting down spending with cheap labor -Good for the economy were the effects on which continent 1) Europe 2) Africa 3) Americas

1) europe

America to Europe 1) raw materials 2) slaves 3)goods

1) raw materials

Who dominated the Slave Trade 1) England 2) americas 3) africa

1)England

Triangular Trade Route 1)Goods transported between Africa, the West Indies, and Europe 2)goods transported between India, China, and Africa

1)Goods transported between Africa, West Indies, and Europe

What did the English ship captains typically offer in trade for a cargo of captured African slaves? 1)Guns and finished products 2)Gold and Silver 3)Sugar and Molasses 4)Fish and timber

1)Guns and finished productsAbout how many people died along the Middle Passage? 200 thousand 2 billion 2 million 10 million

List 5 factors that made European conquest of Africa possible

1)Western companies sought govt help to complete African traders 2)Advances in tropical medicine 3)Invention of more powerful weapons 4)Tricked African rulers into give the Europeans the land 5)The Africans could not unite for common defense

The majority of slaves that were brought to the American colonies were brought to... 1)Work on plantations 2)Work on the railroad 3)Work building houses 4)Work building ships

1)Work on plantations

The Atlantic Slave Trade affected the slaves as well as 1)the economies and history of the world 2)the rapid development of technology 3)Asian communities 4)the use of raw materials

1)the economies and history of the world

Passive Resistance

-Non-violent resistance

Why is there a gap between embarked and disembarked?

-Numerous Africans aboard the slave ships died from disease or cruel treatments by merchants -Many others committed suicide by plunging in the ocean rather than being enslaved -20% of Americans aboard each slave ship perished during the brutal trip to the Americas

what was One ship's capacity 1) 1000 2)400-500 3) 100

2) 400-500

Africa to America 1) raw materials 2) slaves 3) goods

2) slaves

About how many people died along the Middle Passage? 1)200 thousand 2)2 billion 3)2 million 4)10 million

2)2 million

The part of the slave's journey aboard the ship between Africa and the American colonies was known as the _________________ _________________ 1)Triangular Trade Route 2)Middle Passage 3)Northwest Passage 4)Bermuda Triangle

2)Middle Passage

To meet the massive demand for labor where did the Europeans look for slaves? 1)Europe 2)Spain 3)Africa 4)Asia

3) africa

Where did most African slaves end up? 1) Portugal 2) England 3) the Caribbean

3) caribbean

Which phrase accurately describes the conditions aboard the slave ship? 1)Luxurious 2)Accommodating 3)Spacious 4)Dark and Claustrophobic

4)Dark and Claustrophobic

What were the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa and the Americas?

Africa: -countries and land being depopulated -numerous cultures lost generations of their fittest members to European traders and plantation owners -countless African families were torn apart, many never reunited -Guns from Europe; started wars/violence in Africa Americas: Resistance from slaves

How did the Columbian Exchange result in the Transatlantic Slave Trade? Diseases wiped out Native American populations Europeans needed labor to plant crops in the New World Native Americans would rebel or run away from slave masters All of the above

All of the above

Give three ways Europeans acquired African slaves.

Bought them, traded them or stole them.

Why did so many people die on the Middle Passage? Slave traders usually purchased unhealthy individuals Disease and malnutrition Overloaded ships often sank Successful rebellions on board ships took many lives

Disease and malnutrition

Triangular Trade

Europe to Africa to America

Why did African Leaders Trade other Africans with Europeans?

For guns, brass items, gun powder, pottery, glass beads, linens, and coral

What was the name of the dungeons where slaves were held before they were shipped out? Palaces Fortresses Mines Factories

Fortresses

During what years did Atlantic Slave Trade occur?

From the mid-15th centuries until the late 19th century

Why were Africans more effective slaves than Natives

Immunity, Experience, not familiar with the land

Explain how the Atlantic Slave Trade benefited Europeans.

It benefitted Europe economically, as they were able to sell the slaves for profit and collect raw materials from the slave labor which they could use to create manufactured goods in their factories in Europe.

Why were Europeans less successful in enslaving Native Americans than they were in enslaving Africans? Native Americans died in huge numbers because they were not immune to European Diseases like Small Pox Africans spoke fluid English The Natives were Christians Africans wanted to come to America anyway and practice European Religions

Native Americans died in huge numbers because they were not immune to European Diseases like Small Pox

Which European nation carried out much of the Atlantic Slave Trade early on?

Portugal

What role did Africa play in the Atlantic Slave Trade?

Some west African societies captured and enslaved other Africans in order to sell them to European traders for manufactured goods.

what's the connection between the Atlantic slave trade & European industrialization?

The connection between the Atlantic slave trade and the European industrialization is the slaves would send the goods to Europe and the Europeans would make the profits from it.

How did Europeans justify enslaving Africans? They claimed that Africans were biologically inferior They claimed that Africans were biologically superior They claimed that Africans were cannibals

They claimed that Africans were biologically inferior

Name and describe three distinct ways in which the slave trade impacted West Africa.

The large kingdoms benefited from the from participation in the world trade. They gained new interconnections along the west African coast. Importanted new plants and animals created a wider variety of goods. (Dahomey: one of the Kings that started this brutal cycle) Kingdom VS Kingdom--Trade Slaves for guns--Euro shipped slaves to colonies. Pawning system= African women sells child to another family of higher social class who in turn gives them

How were African trade states influenced by the Atlantic Slave Trade? 1)They began to capture and trade European slaves 2)They became too weak to resist the slave trade 3)They competed to dominate the market for slaves 4)How did the Columbian Exchange result in the Transatlantic Slave Trade?They united to oppose the slave trade

They competed to dominate the market for slaves

How did they keep slaves fit? They made them dance on deck. They ran on a wheel. They did jumping jacks and ran races. They jogged around the deck

They made them dance on deck.

Where were most slaves taken from? North Africa East Africa South Africa West Africa

West Africa

Abolitionist

a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.

How did Africans affect religious practices in the New World?

blended traditional African and Christian beliefs

True of False: There are NO Slaves in the world today. True False

false

The Atlantic Slave Trade was an _______. injustice justified necessary productive

injustice

The Atlantic Slave Trade contributed to the development of ____? racist ideology equality liberty and freedom economic growth for everyone

racist ideology

WHY did the Atlantic slave trade develop?

the Atlantic slave trade started was because the Europeans started a market for labor that couldn't be filled with free women and men.

Certain slaves were more valuable than others because they knew how to grow rice. they were more intelligent. they could read. they were more attractive

they knew how to grow rice.

Cash crops produced by slave plantations in the Caribbean were,

tobacco, sugar, cotton

-Violent resistance is active and not passive.. true or false

true

. True/False: Africans captured other Africans to sell to Europeans as slaves to get guns to protect themselves from other warring tribes. True False

true

Making money from the production of sugar and cotton were the effects in the Caribbean ? true or false

true

True or false - the Atlantic slave trade began with the Portuguese and Spanish

true