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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 triangular trade | 1700s, Colonial trade route among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves |
| repeal | cancel |
| monopolies | complete control of a product or buisness by one person/group |
| imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country/region |
| protectorates | countries with their own government but under control of an outside power |
| spheres of influence | area in which an outside power claims exclusive investiment or trading privilages |
| Jihad | in islam, an effort in God's service |
| missionary | someone sent on a religious mission |
| elite | upperclass |
| apartheid | policy of strict racial separation in South Africa; abolished in 1989, became law in 1948 |
| Muhammad Ali | governor of Egypt, father of modern Egypt |
| Olaudah Equiano | slave on the middle passage and wrote about his experiences |
| Menelik II | ruler of Ethiopia, modernized it and kept it an independent state |
| Leopold Senghor | French speaking writer in the negritude movement, first president of Senegal |
| Shaka | leader of the Zulus, expanded the empire and brought other people into their kingdom |
| Don Francisco de Souza | most infamous slave trader, King of Ouida and of slavery |
| Berlin Conference | internation conference held in 1884 in Berlin, Germany. No Africans were invited. |
| Boers | Dutch farmers that migrated to settle around Cape Town in Southern Africa in the late 1700s. They enslaved Khoisan herders that lived in the area and also considered themselves number one/God's chosen people, though Africans were not as good. |
| Negritude | a 1930s movement when French speaking writers from West Africa and the Carribean wrote about their pride in African roots. Then Seneglaese poet Leopold Senghor was best known writer |
| Pan Africanism | demand to end colonialism, emphazied unity between Africans and peopel of African decent around the world, idea that africans want to be out from under european rule and their own independence |
| Trade with Africans | Europeans gave guns, Africans gave saves to Americas |
| Slave trade | needed slaves bc demand for need of luxury goods went up and griculture needs and realized they needed more people to work on farms |
| "floating coffins" | beginning in the 1500s, were what Africans called the slave ships because so many people died of the horrible conditions (disease, abuse, crammed). Hundreds of men, women, kids, were crammed under the decks after they were sold. |
| imperialism (related to Europeans specifically) | Europeans in 1800s kept expanded and practiced this in many countries |
| Social Darwinism | occured with Europeans thinking that they were greater than everyone in mid to late 1800s, this is when Darwin's ideas about natural selection and survivual of the fittest are related to human survival. Europeans thought devestation of weak races was natural selection and improving the human species |
| "Women's War" | in 1920s Ido women of Nigeria protested British laws that were against their rights and economic roles. previously before British policies women controlled market place and farm land, the protest was to gain their right to make decisions about business and it soon became a huge revolt against the British |
| Almen | first European trading post |
| Number of slaves brought to New World | 11 million |
| Gold | Portugal first went to Africa for this natural resource |
| Ouida | Lat slave ship left (city name) |
| Auschwitz | compared to slave castles (place) |
| Room of no return | Didn't know where they were going or what would happen to them |
| Guns | What the Europeans were giving to Africans in exchange for slaves |
| Slaves (to and from whom) | Africa gave slaves to Americas |
| Cotton, sugar, tobacco | Americans gave to Europeans |
| Middle Passage | Overseas between Africa and America |
| Kumasi | Most powerful kindgom in slave trading |
| Stilts | What the villages on because it was bad luck to cross the river |
| 25 slaves | number of slaves equaled to one canon |
| criminals/ prisoners of war | African slaves that were usually traded |
| 20% | percentage of slaves traded to the New World from Benin |
| Why did they keep slaves in the dark? | To keep them from running away, and to get them used to life how it would be on the boats |
| Great Trek | created in late 1830s when several thousand Boer families came together and headed north. Was intended to escape British rule bc Boers hated British laws that abolished slavery bc it was part of their culture. had to fight off anyone who got in their way, like the Zulus |
| slave | named after Slavs, who were forced to work as unpaid laborers for Russia, they have been around since the beginning of time |
| Two major decisions of Berlin Conference | Free trade on Cogo and Niger Rivers. A country had to set up government office in order to colonize |
| Ethiopia | Ancient Christain kindgom in East Africa separated amon many rival princes. Late 1800, Menelik ruled it and modernized country |
| King Leopold II | became king of Belgium in 1865, hired Stanley to explore Congo R. and create treties with Africans for trade. main goal= money and conquest, not directly said though. Forced to give up his power to Belgin government |
| Liberia | 1847 became and independent repbulic nation. one of main places frre blacks returned to after previously being slaves in the US and is located on West Coast of Africa |
| Suez Canal | 1895, Ferdinand de Lesseps, a french entrepreneur set up the building on the canal. it was an 100 hundred mile waterway connecting meditterean and red seas. opened in 1869 and greatly appreicated bc it shortened the sea routh to south and east africa |
| ANC (stands for and id) | African National Congress, in 1912 was formed. it was a political party of educated Africans, the group rotested laws that restricted African freedoms |
| Pan African Congress | 1919, set up by African American W.E.B DuBois delegates met in pairs from African colonies, West Indies, US. allies held peace conference in paris at the same time and were aksed by congress to approve their charter of rights for Africans. Westerners ignored the charter, but the congress developed between Africans and African American leaders. |
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