Slave Trade
European traders sailed across this ocean to deliver their African slaves to the Americas?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This is the name of the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that brought African slaves from the West African coast to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
These are the common names for the goods transported to and from nations during trade
What is imports and exports?
The forced trafficking and enslavement of 10 to 12 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
An increase in prices over time, causing a reduction in the value of money
What is inflation?
This European nation was the dominant global power during the peak of the slave trade?
What is Great Britain?
What would African rulers exchange for the goods given to them by European traders
What is African slaves?
The supply of this couldn't keep up with the increasing demand of the growing population in Europe during the Price Revolution
What is food?
An open and organized rebellion against lawful authority
The activity or business of sending goods to another country in order to sell them there
What is export?
This Portuguese colony became the largest destination for African slaves during the Slave Trade, as well as human history
What is Brazil?
Name all 5 of the European nations that participated and used the Triangular Trade route the most
What is Great Britain, Spain, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands?
These highly valuable materials were exported from the Americas and flooded European markets
What is gold and silver?
A 1807 act passed by the British Parliament that made buying and selling enslaved people illegal across the British Empire
What is the Slave Trade Act?
A business entity in which shares of the company’s stock can be bought and sold by shareholders
What is Joint-Stock Company?
This European nation operated their own massive, highly efficient bilateral South Atlantic trade route
What is Portugal?
These happened on roughly 10% of all voyages during the Middle Passage
What is Mutiny?
The Commercial Revolution led to the formation of these ideals
What is Capitalist ideals?
An exclusive commercial license granted to foreign merchants, corporations, or rival nations allowing them the sole right to supply enslaved Africans directly to Spanish-American ports
What is the Asiento System?
A period of major economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism in Europe that lasted from the late 13th century until the mid-18th century
What is the Commercial Revolution?
This was created by the Spanish to get around the rules of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
What is the Asiento System?
Besides gold and silver, name 4 of the 7 most common goods exported from the Americas that European ships were usually filled with
What is sugar, molasses, tobacco, cotton, alcohol, indigo, or coffee
These two cities became bigger financial hubs due to the Commercial Revolution
What is London and Amsterdam?
A British movement to end the transatlantic trafficking and institutional ownership of enslaved African people driven by Enlightenment philosophies regarding human rights and Christian moral condemnation of human bondage
What is the Abolitionist Movement of 1787?
A period of high inflation in Western Europe due to population growth and materials brought in from the New World from the early 16th century until the mid-17th century