History 11-5 Guided questions STARRED

22)Alfonso I(KPC)

- the ruler of Kongo, a historical kingdom in west-central Africa, in the early 16th century. - Afonso encouraged trade with Portugal, promoted European culture in his kingdom, and - adopted Christianity as the state religion and as his own religion.

8) What industries grew as a result of the slave trade?(SFTS)

- the shipping industry. Other colonial industries, such as fishing, raising tobacco, and processing sugar, became hugely successful.

4) How did Europeans get access to the slaves bought from Africa?

- they relied on local African rulers and traders to bring captives usually from other African nations to coastal trading posts. - There, the traders exchanged captured Africans for weapons, gunpowder, textiles, iron, and other goods.

1) Why did Europeans set up small forts on the coast of West Africa?

- to resupply their ships and profit from local trade, especially in gold

19) In total what percent of all enslaved Africans were brought to Brazil or the Caribean?

-80%

14) What impact did the slave trade have on African societies?

- Yet the slave trade had a devastating impact on African societies. Millions of people in Africa were brutalized by the slave trade and slavery itself. Many others died during the horrific Middle Passage.

17) How did Britain deal with ending slavery?

- the issue of the spread of slavery into new territories helped fuel tensions that ultimately led to the Civil War In 1865,

26)Middle passage

- the leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas

30)Monopoly

- complete control of a product or business by one person or group

27)Mutiny

- revolt, especially of soldiers or sailors against their officers

9) Name four port cities that triangular trade(Atlantic Slave Trade) positively impacted?(NFBE,,SMNR)

(Nantes,France), and (Bristol, England), (Salem, Mass), (Newport, Rhode island)

20) In total did the different people of Africa who came to America on it's cultures

- A rich variety of African traditions, languages, beliefs, stories, music, and other cultural elements were added to the emerging new cultures of the Americas.

16) What happened by the late 1700s and throughout the 1800?

- By the late 1700s and throughout the 1800s, reformers in Britain, the United States, and elsewhere called for abolition, or ending slavery and the slave trade.

12) What was the biggest threat to the lives of the slaves?

- Disease was the biggest threat to the lives of the captives and the profit of the merchants.

18) What impact did slavery have in the U.S?How did slavery finally end?

- In 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, slavery was officially ended in all parts of the United States.fueled tensions, led to civil war

7) Explain how triangular trade worked.

- On the first leg, merchant ships brought European goods—including guns, cloth, and cash—to Africa. In Africa, the merchants traded these goods for slaves. - On thse second leg, known as the Middle Passage, the slaves were transported to the Americas. There, the enslaved Africans were exchanged for sugar, molasses, and other products manufactured at plantations owned by Europeans. - On the final leg, merchants carried sugar, molasses, cotton, and other American goods such as furs, salt fish, and rum made from molasses.

11) Describe what it was like for the slaves on the ships or floating coffins.

- Once purchased, Africans were packed below the decks of slave ships, usually in chains. - Hundreds of men, women, and children were crammed into a single vessel for voyages that lasted from three weeks to three months. - The ships faced many perils, including storms at sea, raids by pirate ships, and mutinies, or revolts, by the captives.

6) What Europeans country started the slave trade and how did they use the slaves?

- Spain

13) How did the slave trade impact colonial economies?

- The slave trade brought great profits to many and provided the labor needed by colonial economies.

10) Describe the journey of a slave from the village to the coast.

- The terrible journey began before the slave ships set sail. Most Africans were taken from inland villages. - After they were enslaved, they were forced to march to coastal ports. Men, women, and children were bound with ropes and chains, often to one another, and forced to walk distances as long as a thousand miles. - Many captives died along the way. Others tried to escape, and were often quickly recaptured and brutally punished. - Those who survived the march were restrained in coastal holding pens and warehouses in slave shipping ports such as Elmina, .

31)Oyo empire(WST)

- Yoruba people formed this state in present-day southwestern Nigeria in the 1600s. - This empire used wealth from trade, including slave trading, to maintain a trained army and to eventually conquer the neighboring Dahomey kingdom. - The Yoruba people then traded with European merchants from Dahomey's ports .

29)Osei Tutu(FA)

- born around 1660 and died in the early 1700s. He was a founder and first ruler of the Asante empire in present-day Ghana. - He started as the chief of the small state of Kumasi. - But he realized that small separate Asante kingdoms needed to unite in order to protect themselves from powerful Denkyera neighbors.

24)Olaudah Equiano(SA)

- captured in West Africa when he was a boy of 11, sold into slavery, and transported to the Americas. - Later, he found paying work and earned enough money to buy his freedom. In 1789, he wrote his autobiography, - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. He died in London in 1797.

25)triangular trade

- colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves

15) how did the slave trade disrupt whole societies in Africa?

- it disrupted whole societies. The slave trade triggered wars, increased tensions among neighboring peoples, and led to the rise of strong new states. The rulers of these states battled rivals for control of the slave trade.

28)Asante Kingdom

- kingdom that emerged in the 1700s in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade

21)Plantation

large estate run by an overseer and worked by laborers who live there

23)Missionary

someone sent to do religious work in a territory or foreign country