Question Question 1 (2 points)
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Life expectancy for nineteenth-century Brazilian male slaves was
a. 10 years.
b. 50 years.
c. 39 years.
d. 65 years.
Selected: e. 23 years.
Question 2 (2 points)
The French plantation economies were considered "more diverse" because
they also produced
a. wine and cheese.
b. molasses and rum.
Selected: c. coffee and cacao
d. jute and twine.
e. bananas and plantains
Question 3 (2 points)
While the British system of mercantilism was defined by the Navigation Acts,
the French system used laws known as:
Selected: a. Exclusif
b. les Tariffs
c. Entrepôt
d. qu'elle domage
e. cose nostra
Question 4 (2 points)
The second leg of the Atlantic Circuit, transporting slaves across the Atlantic
to plantation colonies, was known as:
a. Impressment
b. Involuntary Servitude
c. Chains of Sorrow
Selected: d. the Middle Passage
e. the Deadly Voyage
Question 5 (2 points)
The majority of African slaves in the Islamic world were:
a. worked on sugar plantations
Selected: b. women for concubines and servants
c. translators.
d. children
e. artisans
Question 6 (2 points)
Manumission permitted slaves to
a. have time off during certain religious holidays.
b. sell their surplus produce or goods from their own work.
c. marry and not have families separated.
d. switch job practices on the plantation.
Selected: e. purchase or receive their freedom from slavery.
Question 7 (2 points)
Which area best illustrates the dramatic transformation that sugar brought to
the 17th century Caribbean?
a. The Bahamas
b. Martinique
c. Jamaica
d. Cuba
Selected: e. Barbados
Question 8 (2 points)
Although the organization of the Atlantic slave trade varied from African
region to region, it expanded and prospered because of
a. African elite
b. European merchants
Selected: c. all of the above
d. African tribal warfare
e. European economic incentives
Question 9 (4 points)
Multiple correct answers. Must select all correct answers for full credit.
Select all the following TRUE statements about population loss in Africa as a
result of the slave trade?
a. Even at the peak of the trade, the population of Africa remained large.
Selected: b. Population loss was reduced by the fact that more men than
women were traded into slavery.
Selected: c. Areas near the Slave Coast lost a disproportionate number of
people.
Selected: d. New foods from the Americas helped to offset population losses
due to the slave trade.
e. Population loss was uniform across all areas of west Africa.
Question 10 (2 points)
The "clockwise" network of trade in the Atlantic was known as the
a. Reverse Option Market.
Selected: b. Atlantic Circuit.
c. Robinson Route.
d. Continental Trade Route.
e. European Circuit.
Question 11 (2 points)
Which was NOT a method used to curtail African cultural traditions by
European planters?
a. Learning colonial languages.
b. Converting to Christianity
c. Mixing slaves from different parts of Africa.
Selected: d. Mandatory primary education.
e. All of these.
Question 12 (2 points)
In the eighteenth century, West Indian plantations were controlled by a
plantocracy,
a. a group of people concerned about the environment.
Selected: b. a small number of rich men who owned most of the land and
slaves.
c. a group of botanists who encouraged the growth of new and exotic plants.
d. a religious sect of Protestantism.
e. none of these
Question 13 (2 points)
Chartered companies were
a. maritime manufacturers of maps and charts.
b. groups of Amerindian investors who pooled money and resources.
Selected: c. private investors with trade monopolies who paid annual fees to
France and England in colonies.
d. companies of missionaries and religious societies.
e. illegal in most European countries.
Question 14 (2 points)
Most slaves taken from Africa were
a. criminals.
b. kidnapped.
c. Muslims.
d. political opponents.
Selected: e. prisoners of war.
Question 15 (2 points)
Men outnumbered women on Caribbean plantations because
Selected: a. twice as many men were imported.
b. men lived much longer than women.
c. women were not as strong as men.
d. women were more susceptible to disease than men.
e. women refused to consent to plantation work.
Question 16 (2 points)
Though many Muslim rulers did not strictly enforce it, Islamic law prohibited
the enslavement of
a. anyone.
b. pagans.
c. Christians.
d. women.
Selected: e. Muslims.
Question 17 (2 points)
Sugar plantations in the Caribbean caused environmental damage through
soil exhaustion and deforestation as well as
a. supplying power for the mills.
Selected: b. introduction of non-native plants and animals.
c. silting up of bays and estuaries.
d. the disposal of used canes.
e. overfertilizing the fields.
Question 18 (2 points)
In the seventeenth-century Caribbean, indentured servants cost ____ as
slaves for cash-short tobacco producers.
a. approximately the same
b. three times as much
c. twice as much
Selected: d. half as much
e. four times as much
Question 19 (2 points)
Most slaves died of disease, the most common of which was
a. malaria
b. influenza
c. yellow
d. plague
Selected: e. dysentery
Question 20 (2 points)
The English Navigation Acts in the 1660s were meant to
a. encourage free trade.
b. restrict the English shipping industry.
c. restrict the English slave trade.
d. put a tariff on English goods.
Selected: e. confine trade within its colonies to English ships and cargoes.
Question 21 (2 points)
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Mercantilism is
a. the belief in a completely free-market economy.
b. the political doctrine that only people who produce economic wealth may
vote.
c. the recognition by the state that all individuals have economic rights.
d. another name for capitalism.
Selected: e. a government policy that protects trade in return for the
accumulation of gold and silver.
Question 22 (2 points)
Which of the following does not describe the Dutch West India Company?
a. It was a private trading company.
b. It seized sugar-producing areas in Brazil.
c. It shipped slaves to Brazil.
d. All of the above.
Selected: e. It paid stockholders huge dividends.
Question 23 (2 points)
The expansion of sugar plantations in the West Indies required
a. an increase in arable land.
b. new fertilizers and seeds.
c. the creation of new markets among the Amerindians.
d. government consultants to oversee farming.
Selected: e. a sharp increase in the African slave trade.
Question 24 (2 points)
The maroon community that first signed treaties recognizing their
independent status as runaway slaves was
Selected: a. Jamaican.
b. Belize.
c. Haitian
d. Guianese
e. Dominican
Question 25 (2 points)
On most islands, the percentage of slaves in the population was
Selected: a. 90 percent.
b. 75 percent.
c. 55 percent.
d. 20 percent.
e. 35 percent.
Question 26 (2 points)
The African state most dependent on the slave trade was
Selected: a. Dahomey.
b. Asante.
c. Oyo.
d. Elmina.
e. Kush.
Question 27 (2 points)
Which of the following is true regarding the Atlantic slave trade?
a. Europeans gained only slightly more wealth than Africans.
b. Africans gained far more wealth than Europeans.
c. Africans benefited from their inclusion in the world trade system but were
harmed by European diseases.
Selected: d. Europeans gained far more wealth than Africans.
e. Europeans and Africans gained nearly the same amount of wealth.
Question 28 (2 points)
Generally, the Atlantic African slave trade was based on a partnership between
a. Arab merchants and African elites.
b. Islamic and African elites.
c. European opportunists and Arab merchants.
Selected: d. European and African elites.
e. Asian and European elites.1 (2 points)