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APWH Ch. 18 Test The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800

Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. Men outnumbered women on Caribbean plantations becausea. 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.

____ 2. Which of the following is not true of population loss in Africa as a result of the slave trade?

a. Areas near the Slave Coast lost a disproportionate number of people.

b. Population loss was uniform across all areas of west Africa.

c. Even at the peak of the trade, the population of Africa remained large.

d. New foods from the Americas helped to offset population losses due to the slave

trade.e. Population loss was reduced by the fact that more men than women were traded into

slavery.

____ 3. Both Muslims and Europeans obtained slaves from sub-Saharan Africa, but

a. the Islamic trade was much smaller.

b. the European trade was much smaller.

c. both slave trades ended soon after they began.

d. Africans refused to deal with Muslim traders.

e. Africans refused to deal with European traders.

____ 4. To reduce the risks of overseas trading, companies

a. built larger ships.

b. bought insurance.

c. created the capitalist system.

d. conducted most of their commerce by land.

e. attacked one another's ships.

____ 5. Islamic law prohibited the enslavement of

a. pagans.

b. Christians.

c. women.

d. Muslims.

e. anyone.

____ 6. Manumission permitted slaves toa. sell their surplus produce or goods from their own work.

b. have time off during certain religious holidays.

c. purchase or receive their freedom from slavery.

d. marry and not have families separated.

e. switch job practices on the plantation.

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____ 7. Among the planter elite in Saint Domingue, where would free blacks rank in the social hierarchy?

a. First.

b. Second, after the grands blancs

c. Third, after the petits blancs

d. Fourth, after free whites

e. Last; blacks were not accorded free status in Saint Domingue____ 8. 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.

d. Mandatory primary education.

e. All of these.

____ 9. Most slaves died of

a. poor nutrition.

b. disease.

c. overwork.

d. abuse.e. accident.

____ 10. On most islands, the percentage of slaves in the population was

a. 35 percent.

b. 55 percent.

c. 75 percent.

d. 90 percent.

e. 20 percent.

____ 11. Where would slave children most likely be found working?

a. In the cane processing factories.

b. tending to livestock.

c. in "grass gangs" doing simple, lighter work.

d. With their parents.

e. Children were exempt from labor.

____ 12. Africans who provided slaves to Europeans most often preferred to receive in return

a. beads and blankets.

b. gold and ivory.

c. rum and horses.

d. guns and textiles.

e. silk and porcelain.

____ 13. Generally, the Atlantic African slave trade was based on a partnership between

a. European opportunists and Arab merchants.b. Asian and European elites.

c. European and African elites.

d. Islamic and African elites.

e. Arab merchants and African elites.

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____ 14. What was the principal cause of mortality aboard Atlantic slave ships?

a. Abuse

b. Execution

c. Disease

d. Suicide

e. Piracy____ 15. Although tobacco was a New World plant long used by Amerindians,

a. Europeans attempted to outlaw its use in America.

b. it was Europeans who began growing the crop on large plantations.

c. European diseases made the plant extinct.

d. it never became popular in Europe because of its unhealthy effects.

e. it was originally from Turkey.

____ 16. "Drivers" were typically

a. white indentured servants.

b. white overseers.

c. free black overseers.

d. male slaves.e. ship captains.

____ 17. Sugar plantations caused environmental damage through

a. the disposal of used canes.

b. soil exhaustion and deforestation.

c. supplying power for the mills.

d. overfertilizing the fields.

e. silting up of bays and estuaries.

____ 18. The "clockwise" network of trade in the Atlantic was the

a. Continental Trade Route.

b. Reverse Option Market.

c. Robinson Route.

d. European Circuit.

e. Atlantic Circuit.

____ 19. Most slaves in the Islamic world were

a. agricultural workers.

b. part of the Atlantic Circuit.

c. soldiers and servants.

d. translators.

e. galley slaves.

____ 20. In the eighteenth century, West Indian plantations were controlled by a plantocracy,

a. a group of people concerned about the environment.b. a small number of rich men who owned 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

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____ 21. While the British system of mercantilism was defined by the Navigation Acts, the French system used

laws known as:

a. les Tariffs

b. qu'elle domage

c. Exclusif

d. cose nostrae. Entrepôt

____ 22. In the seventeenth-century Caribbean, indentured servants cost ____ as slaves.

a. twice as much

b. three times as much

c. half as much

d. approximately the same

e. four times as much

____ 23. How did France and England expand their Caribbean holdings?

a. making alliances with the indigenous tribes of the West Indies.

b. By using the Atlantic Coast of North America as a base and launching coordinated

stealth attacks.c. By attacking older Spanish colonies.

d. By defeating the Portuguese.

e. Bankrupting the Dutch West Indies Company and taking over their properties.

____ 24. Most slaves taken from Africa were

a. kidnapped.

b. prisoners of war.

c. criminals.

d. political opponents.

e. Muslims.

____ 25. Mercantilism is

a. the recognition by the state that all individuals have economic rights.

b. the belief in a completely free-market economy.

c. a government policy that protects trade and demands the accumulation of gold and

silver.

d. the political doctrine that only people who produce economic wealth may vote.

e. another name for capitalism.

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APWH Ch. 18 Test The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 524 2. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 539

3. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 539

4. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 529-530

5. ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 539

6. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 528

7. ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 527

8. ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 527

9. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 526

10. ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 524

11. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 524

12. ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 534 13. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 537

14. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 534

15. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 520

16. ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 524

17. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 524

18. ANS: E PTS: 1 REF: p. 530

19. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 538

20. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 524

21. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 530

22. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 521

23. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 522 24. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 535

25. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 530

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ID: AAPWH Ch. 18 Test The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800 [Answer Strip]

_____ 1.A

_____ 2.B

_____ 3.A

_____ 4.B

_____ 5.D

_____ 6.C

_____ 7.D

_____ 8.D

_____ 9.B

_____ 10.D

_____ 11.C

_____ 12.D

_____ 13.C

_____ 14.C

_____ 15.B

_____ 16.D

_____ 17.B

_____ 18.E

_____ 19.C

_____ 20.B

_____ 21.C

_____ 22.C

_____ 23.C

_____ 24.B

_____ 25.C

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