Ghana Empire
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Slavery in the Colonies
Vocabulary
100

Where Ghana Empire was located

What is West Africa?

100

Where the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade took place

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

100

Where the first slaves arrived from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

What is America?

100

The systemic practice of owning people

What is slavery?

200

The time period in which the Ghana Empire existed.

What is the 1200s-1500s?

200

The time period when the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade existed.

What is the 1500s-1800s?

200

Someone who agreed to work 7 years for no pay

What is an indentured servant?

200

Money earned for doing a job

What is wages?

300

These three resources made the Ghana Empire very rich and powerful.

What is gold, salt and ivory?

300

The sea route taken by the enslaved African people from Africa to the Americas (North and South America)

What is the Middle Passage?

300

The time period before America was an independent country (Hint: commonly known as the 13 Colonies)

What is Colonial America? 

300

A hard-creamy white substance made of the main part of an elephant or walrus tusks

What is ivory?

400

Another name that the people referred to the Ghana Empire as because it had LOTS of gold

What is the "Land of Gold"?

400

The science of determining how many people can fit on a cargo ship to be traded to different countries.

What is tight-packing?

400

These laws made is legal to have slaves in America and gave even more power to slaveowners.

What are Slave Codes?

400
Goods carried on a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle

What is cargo?

500

This king and his family built the Ghana Empire by bringing many small kingdoms together. 

Who is Kaya Maga Cisse?

500

The name of a ship where a group of enslaved Africans were able to free themselves and takeover the ship. (Hint: means 'friendship' in Spanish)

What is 'The Amistad'?

500

Why colonists began to look for other sources of labor outside of indentured servants?

What is because they were expensive?

500

The transportation of enslaved African men and women to North and South America to be sold for profit

What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?

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