1. Mrs. McDonough, Mrs. Hendricks, and Mrs. Thomas
Exploration and Expansion: The Columbian Exchange and Atlantic Slave Trade
Mrs. McDonough, Mrs. Hendricks, and Mrs. Thomas

2. Essential Question:
How did the competition for resources affect the economic relationships between nations during the Age of Exploration?

3. The Effects of the Age of Exploration
The Age of Exploration connected the New World and the Old World.
For the first time, goods, knowledge, and culture could be spread on a global scale.
Although there was competition between nations before, now they could compete for resources in new places.
Nations were also more dependent on one another for trade.

4. The Columbian Exchange
Named after Christopher Columbus
Exchange of goods and diseases between Europe and the Americas
Helped to develop the new economic policy=mercantilism, where a nation's strength was based on the wealth and colonies it gained.

5. The Columbian Exchange

6. The Columbian Exchange
Over the years, Europeans had built up an immunity to common diseases such as smallpox, measles, diphtheria, typhus, and the flu.  
Native populations did not have this immunity = dramatic decline in population.

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8. The Columbian Exchange
The death of Native people in the New World due to disease meant that Europeans could easily colonize new lands.

10. The Triangular Trade and the Atlantic Slave Trade

11. Triangular Trade
Triangular Trade- trading network lasting from the 1600’s to the 1800’s that carried goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
However, slavery was widespread across the Western world.

12. The Atlantic Slave Trade

13. Origins of the Slave Trade
High demand for labor!
Plantations- estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on large scale.
Shortage of Labor (Why?)
Planter had first used Native Americans as workers, but European diseases had killed millions of them.
Indentured servants were too expensive!
Diseases kill of local Native American tribes
9,395,000

14. Middle Passage
Middle Passage- the name for voyages that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.

16. Statistics on Slave Ships
Journey: Lasts 3-6 weeks
10-20% of Africans died on voyage
At dock, families were broken at auctions.
Adolescent Males between the ages of 18 – 25 were the most expensive
Women were prized because they could reproduce and add to their master’s wealth.

17. Slavery in the Colonies
Worked in:
Plantations
Mines
Towns
Countryside
Women performed domestic duties as cooks or servants.

18. Fear of Slave REBELLION!
Many slave owners didn’t teach their slaves to read, why?
The church services usually only read from the New Testament about the suffering of Christ, and avoided the Old Testament about Moses and the Exodus.
There were stiff punishments for even the most minor offenses.

19. Slave Resistance Coped with inhuman treatment by:
Keeping cultural traditions alive
Turned to religion
Destroyed farm equipment
Attacked slaveholders families
Ran Away!

20. Effects of the Slave Trade
Atlantic Slave trade continues for 400 years
The labor of African slaves helped build the economies of the American colonies.
African Diaspora- the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the Americas and Western Europe due to the slave trade.