Miss Agron
7th grade Social Studies
Study Guide
12/3/15
STUDY GUIDE FOR TEST TOMORROW
THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Practice your vocabulary words. Match the word to the definition:
Directions: Look at the vocabulary word. Find the definition(meaning) of the vocabulary work in
the box. Write the letter answer next to the word. For example: 1. Chattel (f)
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Chattel
Leeched soil
Canopy effect
Trade Winds
Bonds
Ashanti
Royal African Company
Privateers
Middle Passage
Season slaves
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b.
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Natural salt due to the steady rain fall
Contracts or agreements
Property
Hard to have sunlight hit the soil- not much photosynthesis
Fierce warrior tribe that traded West Africans with European Corporations
Private armies or military for European corporations
The journey West African slaves endured. Crossed the Atlantic Ocean to get to
the New World
h. European corporations that traded for slaves
i. Safe predictable winds-helped vessels travel and sail to their final destination
j. Slaves that were more accustomed to enslavement and less likely to rebel
Directions: Below write next to the country which region is belongs to: either Senegambia Region
or Niger Delta
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Mauritania
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Senegal
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Niger
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Gambia
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Nigeria
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Mali
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Guinea
Based on your notes from Part one of AST, answer the following questions:
-In traditional African society, what were three ways one could become a slave?
-How long was a person in African enslaved for?
-Who determined how someone became a slave and for how long in traditional African society?
-How did a person become a slave in European society BEFORE AST?
-Was it for life?
-How many (percentage) were captured by pirates?
Based on your notes for part 2 of AST answer the following questions:
-Which region is tropical rainforest?
-Which regions is tropical grassland?
-What crops did West African grow that would make them become the future slaves?
-What were their other skills (hint-stone cutting)?
-How many people would work on a farm?
-What were the years for the Gold for Salt Trade?
-What were the three major kingdoms of the Niger Delta?
Look at your notes for part 3 of the AST to answer these questions below:
-How many natural harbors along the coast of West Africa? What would these harbors wind up becoming
during the Atlantic Slave Trade?
-What was the sailing year for slave ships to come and pick up slaves?
-How long where slaves at the slave stations? Why were they there for so long?
-Who were the key players in trading West Africans? Who were the fierce warrior like tribes? Who were
the European Corporations?
-List the ship manifest
-How many West Africans became slaves and came to the new world from the Senegambia Region and
Niger Delta? (percentage number)
-Break down the numbers for me: ________% of slaves went to Central and South America,
__________% went to the Caribbean, and ____________________% went to North America.
-How long was the journey of the Middle Passage?
-What is the ratio of how many slaves actually made the voyage?
-What is the name of a famous former slave who went through the Middle Passage and was able to learn
how to read/write and make an autobiography?
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Slaves are _________________ --------- __________________ = _______________
Manumission means _______________________.