Famous Figures
Said that the problem of the 20th century is the color line
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
The gentleman's method of slavery.
What is capitalism?
First British settlement in the U.S. (year and place)
What is Jamestown 1619?
This individual was the first to see the early morning moon shining on the white sands.
Who is Rodrigo?
The production of intended effects OR ability to achieve purpose
What is power?
These two financed Columbus expedition.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
A French word that means upper class according to Marxist class theory
What is bourgeoisie?
Slave plantations in the Spanish territories
What are encomiendas?
Columbus built a fort, the first European military base in the Western Hemisphere and called it ____ while also leaving this many men there.
What is Navidad and 39
belief in the superiority of one’s own group/culture over all others.
Ethnocentrism
Said "With 50 men we could subjugate them all"
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Lower class according to Marxist class theory
What is proletariat?
Immediate Successors to the Indigenous before slavery was solidified with Africans.
Give definitions as well.
Who are...Indentured servants--before departure, they signed a contract, binding them to service for 4-7 years in return for their passage; Redemtioners--those who would pay upon arrival or within a specified time thereafter; Convicts--sent out by deliberate policy by their home government, to serve for a specified period.
What Columbus did to the Arawaks, this individual did to the Aztecs while this other individual did the same to the Incas of Peru.
Who is Cortes and Pizarro?
An action aimed at destroying wholly or partially a national, racial, or religious group or society
What is genocide?
Priest who documented the cruelty of the Spanish conquistadores
Who is Bartolome de las Cases?
The excess of value produced by the labor of workers over the wages they are paid
What is surplus value?
These are the steps, in order, of the dehumanization/thingification process.
What is...
Blacks, Women-Human Self
Body
Thing (non human)
Product for Exchange on a World Market
In return for bringing back gold and spices, Columbus was promised these three things:
What is 10% of the profits, governorship over new-found lands, and the fame that would go with the new title: Admiral of the Sea.
Political-economic exploitation of a society by a powerful invading group from the outside.
What is colonialism?
Portuguese explorer who was able to make it to the west coast of Africa in 1441
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
German theorist who wrote a theory of capitalism and class struggle
Who is Karl Marx?
These two elements made American Slavery the cruelest form of slavery in history.
What is...
1. The frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture.
2. the reduction of the slave to less than human status by the use of racial hatred.
Columbus' three jobs were the following:
What is merchant clerk, part-time weaver, and expert sailor?
Part I. The psychological dimension to slavery is we defined as.
Part II. The imposition of one groups interests on another that involves coercion, exploitation, and/unjust subjugation.
What is the ultimate submission to the will of another?
What is Oppression?