Ap world History Guided Reading: Chapter 18 “The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550 – 1800” Terms

Chapter 18 “The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550 – 1800”

1. 
   Atlantic System
   
2. 
   chartered companies
   
3. 
   Dutch West India Company
   
4. 
   plantocracy
   
5. 
   “great gang”
   
6. 
   “grass gang”
   
7. 
   head boiler
   
8. 
   “driver”
   
9. 
   seasoning
   
10. 
    grand blancs
    
11. 
    petits blancs
    
12. 
    free blacks
    
13. 
    manumission
    
14. 
    maroons
    
15. 
    capitalism
    
16. 
    joint-stock company
    
17. 
    stock exchange
    
18. 
    mercantilism
    
19. 
    Royal African Company
    
20. 
    Atlantic Circuit
    
21. 
    Middle Passage
    
22. 
    “Triangular Trade”
    
23. 
    “fixed melancholy”
    

24. 
    Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
    

25. 
    West Indies
    
26. 
    Elmina and Luanda
    
27. 
    Barbados
    
28. 
    Saint Domingue
    
29. 
    Gold Coast
    
30. 
    Slave Coast
    
31. 
    Angola
    

32. 
    Navigation Acts
    

1. 
   By 1600, wh0 was the world’s leading sugar producer?
   
2. 
   How did the Dutch West India Company prosper and areas did it firmly control?
   
3. 
   Describe – in order – the steps in the cultivation of sugar cane and production of sugar.
   
4. 
   List all the ways that sugar plantations were environmentally damaging.
   
5. 
   What were the reasons for the high mortality rate on plantations?
   
6. 
   Describe completely either in a list or in a narrative, the journey of African slaves from Africa to the New World
   
7. 
   Explain the role of Africans in the slave trade and make a list of the products they received in the trade
   
8. 
   What country eventually was the greatest source of slaves in the Atlantic trade?
   
9. 
   How did European and Islamic slave trade affect Africa?
   

• 
  CCOT
  

1. 
   How did the Atlantic system impact the countries that were involved? What was the system’s legacy?
   
2. 
   How did the various economic institutions in the systems of mercantilism and capitalism contribute to the development of the Atlantic system and the slave trade?
   
3. 
   How did the global trade network change from 1500 to 1800?
   

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  Compare/Contrast
  

1. 
   Compare and contrast Christian and Muslim influence in Africa.
   
2. 
   Compare and contrast slavery and other coercive labor systems used in the Americas. (Use Chart 18.1to help brainstorm for your essay)