Vocab
Define slave auction.
A public sale where people who were enslaved were sold to the highest bidder
Define assembly.
A body of lawmakers
What was an overseer’s main job?
to supervise the work of people who were enslaved
Define economy.
The way people use their resources to meet their needs and wants
Someone who agreed to work for an employer for a set period of time in order to pay off a debt was called
Indentured Servant.
Define triangular trade.
the exchange of goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa.
Define industries.
groups of businesses that provide certain goods or services
When Africans who had been captured and enslaved arrived in the American colonies, they were first _________.
Sold at scrambles or auctions
The economies of the colonial regions differed because they had different
Natural Resources
Define monarchy.
a form of government in which the ruler is a king or queen.
Define overseer.
a person who was in charge of the work of enslaved people and who could punish them for disobeying him
Define Dilemma
A situation in which a person is forced to make a decision even though he/she does not like any of the choices
How did people resist enslavement? (3 examples)
Answers will vary.
Plantations specialized in producing
Cash crops.
The first permanent, successful English colony in America was named __________________.
Jamestown.
Define Middle Passage.
the voyage of ships carrying people who had been enslaved across the Atlantic Ocean
Define spiritual.
A type of religious song that developed among enslaved Africans and that expresses deep emotion
Once they had reached the Americas, most were enslaved in the West Indies and forced to work where?
Sugarcane Plantations.
Why were the Quakers mistreated in England?
They practiced a different religion from most English people (Church of England).
Define settlement.
small community created by settlers in a new territory.
Define slave trade.
The exchange of captured people for goods
Define Griot.
A West African storyteller who recites the history of a tribe or family
What was the middle passage like?
Answers will vary.
Massachusetts Bay was founded to protect
Puritans
What delayed Captain John White’s return to Roanoke?
a war between England and Spain