Chapter 4 - Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770

Agriculture

________ has sustained large populations and flourishing trade networks and developed kingdoms and states in some areas.

slave trade

The ________ itself, which one economist of the 18th century described as the "foundation "of Britain's economy as a 'mainspring of the machine that sets each wheel in motion, 'was primarily economic.

Virginia

By 1700, ________ had 5, 000 slaves, and the proportion of the African descent in Chesapeake was more than 22 %.

Slavery

________ was fundamental to the Spanish colonial system, but both the church and the crown raised doubts about the Africans 'enslavement.

North America

In the eighteenth century, tobacco was by far the only major commodity produced in ________, representing more than a quarter of the value of all colonial exports.

Cape Verde

In the sixteenth century, the West African coast, from ________ south to Angola, lived more than 100 different peoples.

1651

Building upon commodities, Parliament adopted between ________ and 1696 a number of Navigation Acts, which established the legal and institutional structure of the colonial system of Great Britain during the 18th century.

Indian slave trade

The ________ was the most precious part of the Carolina economy.

British Royal African Company

The ________, which in the 1670s started importing slaves directly into North America, was more than happy to provide workers 'need.

Slavery

________ had no legal history from England, nor any laws or traditions that would permit or inherit lifetime slavery.