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global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas
columbian exchange
In this type of company, many investors pool their money to start a business and share in the profits
joint-stock company
what is one negative health risk being exchanged unknowingly between nations in the Columbian exchange?
diseases
the demand for African slaves increased due to the lack of workers working in European plantations of what crops?
tobacco, sugar, coffee, cotton
the number of Africans being imported as slaves by European colonizers in the Atlantic Slave Trade
9.5 million
economic system based on private ownership and the investment of wealth for profit
capitalism
an economic policy of increasing wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and selling more goods than are bought
mercantilism
the trade that refers to buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
Atlantic slave trade
African rulers joined in the slave trade. They captured people inland and brought them to the coast to sell to
European traders in America
the year spanning the Atlantic Slave Trade
1500-1870
crops that the Americas exported to other nations during the Columbian exchange
potato, maize, chocolate
the term Columbian exchange came from whose name
Christopher Columbus
a system of labor by which a person could work to pay off the cost of coming to the Americas
indentured servitude
The Africans’ labor helped build the Americas. They brought skills and culture, too. Many of the nations of the Americas have
mixed-race population
the ocean that the ships containing forced African slaves pass through to get to the Americas
Atlantic
animals that Europeans brought to America through the Columbian exchange
Cattle, pigs, and horses
in Columbian exchange, the "New World" was the name first given to what continent?
The Americas
European trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe involving slaves and other goods
triangular trade
the only South American country not colonized by Spain
Brazil
How African slaves were being sold
by bidding
a balanced condition resulting from selling more goods than are bought
favorable balance of trade
in Columbian exchange, the "Old World" refers to what continents?
Africa, Asia, Europe
voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and the Americas
Middle Passage
the situation of captured Africans in the ships as they are forcibly transported to the Americas
harsh, cruel, crammed
a 2013 Oscar-winning movie portraying the struggles of African slaves in America
12 Years A Slave