Freedom on My Mind A History of African Americans with Documents 2nd Edition By White - Test Bank

Use the following to answer questions 1-14:

Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example

provided. Some terms may be used more than once; others may not be used at all.

Terms

a. asiento

b. barracoons

c. bilboes

d. bozales

e. carracks/caravels

f. coffle

g. diaspora

h. Elmina Castle

i. encomienda

j. Guanches

k. ladinos

l. Taino Indians

m. tight packing

n. triangle trade

1. The trade system that propelled the African slave trade: European merchants exchanged

European manufactured goods for enslaved Africans, who were shipped to the Americas

to exchange for New World commodities, which were shipped back to European

markets. ____________

2. A contract or trade agreement created by the Spanish crown. ____________

3. The sailing ships used by the Portuguese to explore Africa and the Atlantic.

Lightweight, fast, and easy to maneuver, these ships generally had two or three masts.

____________

4. Barracks or sheds where some slaves were confined before boarding the slave ships.

____________

5. The dispersion of a people from their homeland. ____________

6. A group of animals, prisoners, or slaves chained together in a line. ____________

Page 17. A fortress in present-day Ghana, built by the Portuguese as a trading post in 1482 and

used as a major slave trading center by the Dutch from 1637 to 1814. ____________

8. Iron leg and hand cuffs used to shackle slaves. ____________

9. A labor system used by the Spanish in their colonization of the Americas under which

the crown granted colonists control over a specified number of Native Americans from

whom they could extract labor. ____________

10. Latinized slaves born or raised in Spain, Portugal, and those nations' Atlantic and

American colonies who spoke fluent Spanish or Portuguese. ____________

11. One of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. ____________

12. A term used by the Spanish for recently imported African captives. ____________

13. The aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands. ____________

14. A system of crowding the human cargo carried on slave ships to maximize profits. By

contrast, "loose packing" involved carrying fewer slaves in better conditions in an effort

to keep mortality rates low. ____________

Page 2Answer Key

1. n

2. a

3. e

4. b

5. g

6. f

7. h

8. c

9. i

10. k

11. l

12. d

13. j

14. m