Origins of Slavery
What year did the first slaves arrive in the American colonies?
What is 1619?
What were the two main cash crops grown early on in the Americas?
What are tobacco and sugarcane?
Name two European nations that were involved in the slave trade?
What are the Portugue, British, French, Spanish , and Dutch?
European nation that sought to develop a fur trade in North America.
Who is France?
France sought this passage that would lead them to Asia via the Pacific Ocean.
From which continent did the middle passage begin?
What is Africa?
The main economic philosophy followed by European nations in the 17th and 18th centuries.
What is mercantilism?
This was the European nation that first delivered slaves to the American colonies.
What is Netherlands?
European nation that had religious dissenters colonize what is now New England in the American colonies.
Who is England (Britain)?
Puritans seeking religious freedom in the colonies were officially members of this church, although many had disagreements over its structure.
What is the Anglican Church?
The Middle Passage was a part of this larger trade network between the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
What is the Triangular Trade?
What are increase your supplies of gold and silver and export more than you import?
European nation that colonized much of what is now Mexico and Central America.
Who is Spain?
The French territory called Louisiana was named after this French monarch.
Who is Louis XIV?
The two main cash crops that slaves would plant and pick during the 17th and 18th centuries.
What are cotton and sugarcane?
Rules used to keep slaves in line and from escaping their plantations.
What are slave codes?
Why didn't European nations use Native Americans as slaves?
What is so many died of disease that none were left to work?
What European nation had Protestant dissidents called Hugenots move to North America for religious freedom?
Who is France?
Who are debtors or poor people?
This was a nickname given to slaves brought to the Americas.
What is black gold?
Autobiography written by ex-slave Olaudah Equiano.
What is The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano?
This country first pioneered the European/African slave trade (Hint: It isn't one of the three we talked about yesterday).
What is Portugal?
The two European nations we discussed yesterday that wanted to spread Catholicism to North America.
Spain accomplished this religious goal in 1492, which allowed them to now concentrate on overseas explorations.
What is expelled members of the Jewish and Muslim faiths?