Vocabulary
Area/land under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country
What is a colony?
Two ways that colonization affected indigenous populations
What is
Loss of land, population, culture, and traditions
Gained disease
Forced assimilation
Halt on progress for the people
displacement
African kings traded prisoners of war for _______ and ________
What is guns and luxury items?
The flow of trade to and from the Americas, Europe, and Africa that lasted until the early 1800s.
What is the Triangular Trade?
A plant produced for its commercial value rather than for the use by the grower.
What is a cash crop?
Europeans exhibited these ideas towards the Native American and African populations.
What is ethnocentricity?
A meeting where European nations settled disputes and formalized imperialist policies in Africa without going to war.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Fishing was a major industry for this colonial region.
What is the New England Colony?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
This disease decimated most of the Native American Population.
What is smallpox?
This current African nation was colonized by King Leopold II of Belgium.
What is the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Three main groups that lived among each other in the early stage of colonization
What is Native Americans, European settlers, and enslaved Africans?
A document giving permission from the monarch to start a colony or business.
Weapons changed tribal warfare between these nations of West Africa.
What is Benin and Ghana?
This European country colonized most of West Africa post Berlin Conference.
What is France?
A chartered company. Its purpose was to open trade in North and South America and to build forts, maintain troops, and challenge Spanish trade, especially in the West Indies.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
Britain’s unofficial policy was to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies.
What is salutary neglect?
The perspective of oppressed groups of people is often left out of the history books.
What is the trouble with history?
The Berlin Conference is also called...
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Middle colonies made their money by...
What is farming and milling