World History- 2.7 Study

What was the role of African Rulers in the salve trade?

African merchants with the help of local rulers captured Africans to be enslaved- they delivered the slaves in exchange for god and guns

What was the primary cause of European colonists using African as slave labor?

European colonists in the Americas needed cheap labor, so they began using enslaved Africans on plantations and farms.

What were the consequences of the slave trade in the Americas?

The art, music, religion, and food spread in America

How many Africans were brought to the Americas from 1500 to 1600, from 1600 to 1700, and from 1700 to 1870?

1. 1500 to 1600- 300,000 2. 1600 to 1700- 1.3 million 3. 1700 to 1870- 9.5 million

How did the African Slave trade differ from the encomienda system, indentured servants, and the wage labor system?

1. In the encomienda system the native laborers were technically not property of the Spanish land lords, they were not taken from their homeland, and they were said to be treated well 2. Indentured servants was so they could work to pay off the cost of coming to America, they were usually Europeans who wanted to resettle in the Americas, and they made an agreement. 3. In wage labor system, an employer paid worker for their labor, the 2 parties entered into the relationship voluntarily, and given shelter and food

What advantages did the Europeans see in using Africans as slave labor?

1. Many Africans had been exposed to Eouropean diseases and built up some immunity 2. They had experience in farming in farming and taught plantation work 3. Less likely to escape because they didn't know their way around the new world 4. Skin color made it easier to catch them if they tried to escape

What were the three parts of the triangular trade?

Africans transport to the Americas, Europeans transported manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa, Africans were transported to the West Indies

What country carried most of the Africans during the slave trade?

England dominated the Atlantic slave trade

Where were many Africans brought during the 1600s?

Spain moved on to the Caribbean and began to colonize the America Mainland.

What was the middle passage?

The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later north to South

In the Americas, what were 2 qualities attached to slavery?

They were auctioned off to the highest bidder- then worked in mines or fields They kept alive musical traditions and stories of Ancestors

What were the consequences of the slave trade in Africa?

numerous cultures lost generations of their fittest members, their young and able, families were torn apart, and Europeans introduced guns to the continent.