141- African American History Final Exam/ Test 1

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How did Soninke monarch become wealthy and powerful before the fifth century CE?

Through trade, and with the introduction of camel and horse providing better transportation.

Where did most of the slaves from Africa go?

To Brazil, to work on the sugar plantations

What was the cash crop in Colonial American ?

Tobacco

Great Britain found the colony of Georgia in 1732 as a

Buffer Zone between Carolina and Spanish Florida

What was the greatest cause of death among slaves during the Middle Passage?

Disease

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century, when the slave trade was finally abolished, at least how many captives left Africa as slaves for the New World?

12 million

When were the first African slaves brought to England 's Chesapeake colony?

1619

What was the system of chattel by English colonists in North America ?

African slaves were considered the property of their owners, similar to livestock or furniture.

Why did the British not establish colonies as rapidly as the Spanish

All of of above

Who defeated the Soninke monarchs?

Almorvids

By the fifteenth century, most West Africans practiced one of a variety of polytheistic religions that often invoked the spirits of ?

Ancestors

Where was the first known kingdom in the western Africa?

Ancient Ghana

Most of the northern third of the African continent is made up of the

Arabian

Which Songhai leader was a devout Muslim who helped spread Islam in Africa and established the Sankore Mosque at Timbuktu?

Askia Muhammad

About half of the planters who established the colony of Carolina in 1663 came from what other English Colony?

Barbados

What was the practice of half-freedom in Dutch-controlled New Netherlands during the seventeenth century?

Blacks who defended the colony would be freed, but their children were not liberated.

In the society of West Africa, Slavery

Functioned as a means of assimilation into West African societies.

What evidence suggests there was controversy among Quakers over the use of slave labor ?

Germantown Quakers wrote the first American antislavery petition .

How did England seek to increase the number of laborers in its North American colonies in the early seventeenth century ?

Indentured servants brought to America

Where was the first permanent British settlement in North American ?

Jamestown

What did Coda Noir, or Black Code in French colonies permit slaves owners to do to their slaves ?

Kill slaves who ran away three times.

What was the term used to describe Latinized blacks who were from Spain or Portugal or Spanish or Portuguese colonies.

Ladino

What happened too many Africans once they became slaves in Muslim society?

Most were resold by Arabs in Morocco to form a huge part of Europeans slave trade.

Rebellion in 1676, a rebellion by former indentured servants demanding political change, pushed concerned wealthy white men in Virginia to use slavery over the older form of labor?

Nathanial Bacon

In Ghana and Mali society the power pass to whom?

Political power pass through women - a chief would be succeeded by his sister's son, rather than his own.

Which European country took the lead in exploration and colonization in the early 1400s?

Portugal

What kind of work did Middle Atlantic slaves do in English colonies ?

Rice cultivation

What sentence was imposed on the American indentured servant John Punch in 1640 after he was captured in Maryland fleeing from a Virginia planter?

Servitude to the planter for the rest of his life

What kind of labors system was used in rice growing regions, where a driver was chosen to oversee the work of other slaves?

Task system

What African empire became powerful in the 1200s after Ghana fell to the Almorvids?

The Mandinka formed the Mali Empire

Who brought the first Africans to North America ?

The Spanish

What was the largest slave uprising in Britain's North American colonies?

The Stono rebellion

Which accomplishment was not a first for ( or sponsored by ) the Portuguese?

The discovery of the New World

Where is it believed the majority of the slaves who participated in the Stono rebellion were from ?

The kingdom of Kongo

Why did the Spanish start replacing indigenous labor with African slave labor in the sixteenth century?

The population of Indians rapidly declined mostly due to disease.

How did an African become a Slave ?

Their town or village was conquered by another African army.

Who helped Portugal established trade routes West Africa to the Cape of Good Hope and beyond to the Far East?

Vasco da Gama

The Islamic religion in West Africa

Was introduced by Arab jihad and travelers.

Mansa Musa, a ruler of the Mali Empire in the fourteenth century,

Was one of the wealthiest men the world has known

What company held a royal monopoly over Dutch trade in the Americas and led the colonization of New Netherland?

West Indies Company


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