Columbian Exchange
Vocabulary
Slavery
Writing
100

This animal from Afroeurasia revolutionized warfare, herding, and hunting.


What are horses?

100

This was the institution of owning slaves or holding individuals in a condition of servitude


What is slavery?

100

This led to a loss of working population that kept the economies of Africa from developing.


What is Transatlantic Slavery?

100

This restates the question and has three reasons explaining it all in the same sentence.


What is a thesis statement?

200

This plant from the Americas is what chocolate is made of.


What is cacao?

200

This term was used to describe the transatlantic voyage of Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves.


What is the Middle Passage?

200

Workers from abroad were needed to replace the Native Americans who were dying due to diseases from the Old World.


What is why the Europeans used African slaves?

200

This uses a quote from a document and is cited in the following format: (Doc 4).


What is evidence?

300

This disease from Afroeurasia spreads very easily, deadly when not treated. Depopulated Americas

What is smallpox?

300

This historically geographic term consists of Africa, Europe, and Asia


What is the Old World?

300

This trade destabilized Africa to the modern day by putting warlords in power


What is trading slaves for weapons?

300

This uses info not explicitly mentioned in the given documents to support your thesis statement.


What is outside information?

400

This plant from the Americas was used to treat malaria, led to later European colonisation of Africa.

What is quinine?

400

This is the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.


What is colonialism?

400

This term describes the route that was used to transport slaves from Africa to the Americas.

What is the Middle Passage?

400

This explains how evidence supports your claim and thesis statement.


What is analysis?

500

The production of this plant from the Americas required massive labor sources, heavily increased demand for African slaves


What is sugarcane?

500

This was a shipping route that connected Africa, the West Indies and North America in a transatlantic commerce of slaves and manufactured goods


What is the Triangular Trade?

500

This man was an African native who was enslaved and brought over to North America, where he eventually gained freedom and wrote about his experiences as a slave


Who is Ottobah Cugoano?

500

This is how you highlight important words and key phrases in a document to better understand it and be able to use quotes from it.


What are annotations?