History Exam
Which of the following was the first known kingdom in western Sudan?
Ghana
What contribution did Muhammad Toure make to Songhai?
He helped spread the influence of Islam within his realm.
Which of the following was the largest of the empires in western Sudan?
Songhai
Phillis Wheatley grew up in _________.
Boston
Mali was __________ than Ghana
wealthier
Which of the following turned Jamestown into a profitable enterprise?
Tabacco
Which of the following was true of the vast majority of Songhai's population?
They were peasants
According to Al Bakri, the city of Ghana was
divided into two towns
Once captured Africans reached the coast, they were taken to fortified structures called_______.
factories
The peoples of the forest region were particularly important in African-American history because they played a large role in __________
the Atlantic slave trade
Once at sea, slave ships travelled to the Canary Islands and from there to __________.
the West Indies
Indentured servants who worked on Chesapeake tobacco plantations sold their freedom for a number of years in exchange for __________
transportation to North America
The availability of large numbers of slaves in West Africa was a result of __________.
wars
How did the Oyo people impose political unity over the Yoruba during the seventeenth century?
with a well-trained cavalry
Which of the following helps explain why the 32 people of African descent who arrived in Jamestown in the early seventeenth century were not considered slaves?
The English did not have a law establishing slavery.
Anthony Johnson __________.
African-American landowner in Virginia. Was at first an indentured servant. (1620) Tobacco farmer. Died in 1670. Became a Slave Owner
How did freedom suits in the early eighteenth century differ from freedom suits in the late eighteenth century?
Late eighteenth-century suits increasingly focused on principles of universal liberty.
Under chattel slavery, enslaved African Americans were the legal equivalents of
Livestock
Who were West Africa's chief trading partners in the trans-Sahara trade before the fifth century CE?
Roman merchants and Berbers
Which of the following statements best describes the triangular trade system produced by the Atlantic slave trade?
The middle part of the trade included traders carrying African slaves to the West Indies and exchanging slaves for sugar.
For most of the seventeenth century, __________.
black and white people worked side by side in tobacco fields in the Chesapeake colonies
Many captive Africans believed that the Europeans they encountered on the West African coast were __________
cannibals
Which of the following helped tie the empire of Mali together?
commerce
The committee of slaves from Boston who petitioned the Massachusetts General Court in April 1773 __________.
made arguments based on natural rights
The Dutch writers who described Benin City were impressed by the city's ________.
sheer size