Ghana Empire
Where Ghana Empire was located
What is West Africa?
Where the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade took place
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Where the first slaves arrived from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
What is America?
The systemic practice of owning people
What is slavery?
The time period in which the Ghana Empire existed.
What is the 1200s-1500s?
The time period when the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade existed.
What is the 1500s-1800s?
Someone who agreed to work 7 years for no pay
What is an indentured servant?
Money earned for doing a job
What is wages?
These three resources made the Ghana Empire very rich and powerful.
What is gold, salt and ivory?
The sea route taken by the enslaved African people from Africa to the Americas (North and South America)
What is the Middle Passage?
The time period before America was an independent country (Hint: commonly known as the 13 Colonies)
What is Colonial America?
A hard-creamy white substance made of the main part of an elephant or walrus tusks
What is ivory?
Another name that the people referred to the Ghana Empire as because it had LOTS of gold
What is the "Land of Gold"?
The science of determining how many people can fit on a cargo ship to be traded to different countries.
What is tight-packing?
These laws made is legal to have slaves in America and gave even more power to slaveowners.
What are Slave Codes?
What is cargo?
This king and his family built the Ghana Empire by bringing many small kingdoms together.
Who is Kaya Maga Cisse?
The name of a ship where a group of enslaved Africans were able to free themselves and takeover the ship. (Hint: means 'friendship' in Spanish)
What is 'The Amistad'?
Why colonists began to look for other sources of labor outside of indentured servants?
What is because they were expensive?
The transportation of enslaved African men and women to North and South America to be sold for profit
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?