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