AP S2 4.6 pt 1 flashcards 2025

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Describe the Dutch West India Company

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Seen as enemies of French, Portuguese and Spanish

• seized sugar-producing areas in Brazil

• paid stockholders huge dividends

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The expansion of sugar plantations in the West Indies required

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a sharp increase in the African slave trade.

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Why were the French plantations in the Caribbean "more diverse"?

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They also planted coffee and cacao.

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Sugar plantations in the Caribbean caused

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environmental damage through soil exhaustion

deforestation

pressures on native plant and animal species.

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Where would slave children most likely be found working?

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In “grass gangs” doing simple, lighter work

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In the eighteenth century, the West Indians were controlled by

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plantocracy

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In comparing gender during the Atlantic slave trade one could say

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Twice as many men were enslaved than women

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“Drivers” on a plantation were

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privileged male slaves

their job was to "drive" the plantation workers production

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What types of punishments did slaves on plantations endure?

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confinement in irons

cutting off noses and ears

whippings and beatings

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Total life expectancy for nineteenth-century Brazilian slaves was about

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25 years