AP®︎ European History: Topic 1.9 Flashcards

Master key terms and definitions for Topic 1.9 of AP European History – The Slave Trade to help you prep for quizzes and the AP exam.

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Term

Atlantic Slave Trade / Transatlantic Slave Trade

Definition

Forced transportation and enslavement of Africans in the Americas, expanded as plantation labor demand grew and Indigenous populations were devastated

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Atlantic Slave Trade / Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Forced transportation and enslavement of Africans in the Americas, expanded as plantation labor demand grew and Indigenous populations were devastated

Unit 1: Learning Objective LKC-1.3.IV.C
Plantation Economy
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Commercial system centered on large estates producing export cash crops with a controlled labor force, especially enslaved Africans

Unit 1: Learning Objective LKC-1.3.IV.C
Indigenous Demographic Catastrophe
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Catastrophic Indigenous population decline from disease, warfare, displacement, and forced labor, encouraging colonizers to import enslaved Africans

Unit 1: Learning Objective LKC-1.3.IV.C
Chattel Slavery
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A system treating enslaved people as legally transferable property, with permanent status increasingly made racial and hereditary

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Atlantic Economy
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Commercial network linking European shipping and finance, African captives, and American plantation production and commodities

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Middle Passage
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Forced Atlantic voyage carrying enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas under crowded, violent, and deadly conditions

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Asiento
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Spanish royal contract granting an individual or company the right to supply enslaved Africans to Spain’s American colonies

Unit 1: Learning Objective LKC-1.3.IV.C
Triangular Trade
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Simplified Atlantic circuit exchanging European goods in Africa, carrying captives to the Americas, and shipping colonial commodities to Europe

Unit 1: Learning Objective LKC-1.3.IV.C
Planter Society
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Colonial social order dominated by plantation owners whose wealth and political power rested on land, export crops, and enslaved labor

Unit 1: Learning Objective LKC-1.3.IV.C