Map Questions, Study Guide Parts 1-3 and Vocabulary The Triangular Trade Map Questions, Study Guide Parts 1-3 and Vocabulary

Part 1 Questions With Answers The first Africans to come to the New World came and were treated as Indentured servants Why did Maryland and Virginia have a need for slaves? They needed a more permanent source of labor. What caused slave trade to become a profitable business? Legalizing slavery

What did the growing demand for slaves cause in Africa? Violent conflict among African tribes Give 2 ways Africans became slaves. (1) One tribe might capture warriors of another tribe and then sell them into slavery or (2) Raiding parties might kidnap Africans from their villages. What is the Triangular Trade? Shipping routes that connected Europe, Africa, the West Indies, and North America in the transatlantic commerce of slaves and manufactured goods.

Where did the Triangular Trade begin and end? England (Europe) Describe the Middle Passage. Forced voyage from Africa to the Americas. It was a physical and psychological nightmare that lasted several weeks or months. List the slave produced items. Tobacco, sugar, cotton, rum, and other slaved produced items

Part 2 Question With Answers What did English captains of ships do to make the most money? Packed as many Africans as possible into the ship   How many Africans could “slave” ships carry? About 400 What killed 15-20% of slaves traveling on the ships? Disease caused by overcrowding, spoiled food, and contaminated water, starvation, and thirst

What did captains fear most about the Africans? Mutinies Why couldn’t many ships be used after 5 years? The stench and disease that was left behind

Part 3 Questions With Answers What caused the economies and tribes to suffer in Africa while helping to build cities and make people rich in the colonies and England? Slave trade What caused cotton to become the valuable crop in the colonies? Invention of the Cotton Gin What did farmers in the South have a great need for after cotton became the valuable crops? Slave labor

How many slaves were living in the “Cotton Belt” of the southern states by 1800? Almost 1 million When was a law passed that should have ended the importing of new slaves in the U.S.? 1808 Did the law do what it was put in place to do? No, not at first

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Triangular Trade Map Study Guide Questions With Answers Where did the first leg of the Triangular Trade Route begin? Europe (England) What goods were traded for enslaved Africans in West Africa? Alcohol, fire arms, and textiles

What was the middle passage or middle leg of the triangular trade route? Route from West Africa to the Caribbean, South America or North America The Africans that survived the Middle Passage were traded for what? Sugar, rice, tobacco, cotton, and rum Where were those goods taken? Europe

Slave trade - the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.

Middle passage - the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

goods carried on a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle. Cargo - goods carried on a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.

latitude the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point.

longitude the distance measured in degrees east or west on an imaginary line (the Prime Meridian) that runs from the north pole to the south pole and that passes through Greenwich, England