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True or False: The institution of slavery had existed in one form or another for thousands of years before the Western Europeans took West Africans
True
What was the Asiento?
A legal monopoly given by the Spanish. government to individual slave traders
True or False:
Latin America had stricter/harsher slave codes, but more revolts.
True
Slaves first appeared in North America at _________.
Jamestown
All of the following West African tribes were captured or sold into slavery, EXCEPT
-Yoruba
-Igboland
-Massai
-Fon
Massai
Name the 4 labor intensive crops
Indigo, rice, sugar, and tobacco
Who was the Englishman who broke the Asiento by illegally trading slaves?
John Hawkins
What is an absentee landlord?
A landlord who does not live on the plantation, but in Europe.
What was the name of the Dutch company that was trading slaves?
Dutch West India Company.
What is a Caboceer ?
A person whose job it is to get slaves for the Europeans at the price agreed upon by the King and the European merchant.
What's a monopoly?
Definition: exclusive ownership of a market which lets you regulate price and control supply.
What percentage of slaves ended up in the Caribbean when Portugal and Spain were the leaders in slave trading?
57%
What is a Maroon?
An escaped slave who forms his own community outside the authority of the white masters.
What company did the English create to compete with the Dutch?
Royal African Company
Pick one to complete the steps.
1. Americans take rum to West Africa for slaves.
2. Slaves are taken to the West Indies for ___________.
3. ________ is taken back to the 13 colonies.
A. Cotton
B. Indigo
C. Rum
D. Sugar
C. Rum
Who was the person to 1st take slaves from Africa?
Antam Goncalvez
What is the definition of chattel?
Definition: personal property of someone else with no human rights
Spain had its Latin American Empire divided into the ___________ and the __________.
Viceroyalty of New Spain and Viceroyalty of Granada
The English taking over the slave trade is going to lead to what?
The Triangle Trade
Pick one to complete the steps
1. English goods are sent to West Africa for slaves.
2. Slaves are taken to the West Indies for ___________.
3. ________ is taken back to England.
A. Sugar
B. Rum
C. Cotton
D. Indigo
A. Sugar
Who was the first European country to begin trading slaves from West Africa in the 15th century C.E.?
Portugal
Place the European countries that led the slave trade in order starting with the first country and ending with the last to trade slaves.
Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands (Dutch), England, U.S.
All of the following made slavery in Latin America different from slavery in the Caribbean and North America, EXCEPT
-There were more maroons in Latin America.
-Slave codes were instituted earlier in Latin America.
-There was more intermarrying and freed slaves in Latin America.
-Slavery was less deadly in Latin America.
Slavery was less deadly in Latin America.
Where did most of the money from the slave trade go to when the English controlled it?
To the Industrial Revolution
Place the following steps for obtaining slaves in order from the first to the last
1. Caboceer goes and gets slaves
2. Slaves are stored in factories for months
3. Europeans give gifts to the African king
4. Slaves cross the Atlantic Ocean during Middle Passage
5. King gives permission to capture slaves
6. Slaves sold on the auction block
3, 5, 1, 2, 4, 6