AP European History: Slave Trade Effects
Study the political and social impacts of the transatlantic slave trade on Africa. Understand how the trade in firearms destabilized the region, reshaping borders and causing international tensions. Also, explore the militarization, changes in settlement patterns, and gender imbalances that resulted from the slave trade.
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- Question 1
- Utilizing these goods as payment or incentives to African tribal leaders who then supplied enslaved people through kidnapping, trading, tribal warfare, or debt bondage.
- Employing advanced European military tactics and weaponry to directly capture large populations, negating the need for trade goods.
- Establishing long-term economic alliances with African communities to cultivate a dependent workforce.
- Direct bartering of goods for individual captives, without involving local authorities or hierarchies.
- Question 2
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- Question 3
- The 'Asiento' system, where Spain relied on licenses issued to Portuguese merchants to import enslaved Africans, meant Spain did not directly establish significant colonies in Africa in the 16th century. This reliance on external parties for supply distinguished their method from nations that engaged in direct coastal colonization and slave capture.
- Question 4
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- Question 6
- The widespread adoption of mercantilist policies across European nations.
- The Industrial Revolution, which intensified demand for raw materials like sugar and other cash crops, fueling the plantation economy.
- The decline of the Spanish Asiento system, leading to new market dynamics.
- Increased peace treaties among African tribal leaders, leading to more stable trade routes for European merchants.
- Question 7
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- Question 8
- Economic growth concentrated in coastal regions, which were centers for slave markets and ports, drawing resources and development away from interior farming regions. This created a wealth disparity, as individuals in interior regions were isolated from this coastal economic activity and lived under the constant threat of capture and enslavement, directly hindering their ability to accumulate wealth or maintain security.
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- Question 10
- Attempting to negotiate their freedom with ship captains through learned European languages.
- Actively sabotaging vital ship equipment to force a return to the African coast.
- Forming alliances with European crew members who sympathized with their plight.
- Organizing widespread hunger strikes and committing suicide by jumping overboard to resist enslavement.
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- Card 1HintThink about the shape formed by the trade routes on a map.Memory TipThree continents, three points.
- Card 2HintConsider the major European colonial powers and their main North American colony.Memory TipEuropeans, America, colonies.
- Card 3HintThis was the first leg of the journey, moving from Europe to Africa.Memory TipEurope out, goods bought.
- Card 4HintThink of various ways people can be forcefully acquired.Memory TipKidnap, trade, war, debt, crime.
- Card 5HintConsider the difficult choice leaders faced under threat.Memory TipResisted, but forced.
- Card 6HintIt was the terrifying middle leg of the journey for enslaved Africans.Memory TipMiddle: brutal sea journey.
- Card 7HintRecall the vast numbers and high death toll.Memory TipMillions transported, millions died.
- Card 8HintThese were coastal structures where captives were held before transport.Memory TipWaiting pens on the coast.
- Card 9HintConnect the demand for goods with the need for labor.Memory TipDemand for crops fuels slavery.
- Card 10HintThink of a sweet commodity that was highly sought after in Europe.Memory TipSugar: sweet, deadly profit.