1. Many Native American Indians died from smallpox disease.

2. Native American
Indians
also
died from
the harsh
working
conditions
imposed on
them by
the
Europeans.

3. The deaths
of so many
Native American
Indians created
the need for
a work force.

4. Europeans decided to use Africans to replace a dying American
Indian population.

5. Europeans
removed
millions of
Africans
between
the 1500s
and the
1800s.

6. Africans were
stripped of
their language,
culture, and
freedom. They
were forced to
labor under
brutal conditions
in plantations
in the Americas.

7. Enslaved Africans were usually captured
by warring ethnic groups or tribes and
traded to European and
American slave traders.

8. Slaves were traded in exchange for
guns and other goods.

9. The “Middle Passage” was the
slave’s voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

10. Many slaves
died during the
Middle Passage
because of the
terrible
conditions
on the
ships. Slaves
were crowded
together in
small, unsanitary
spaces.

11. Once in the Americas, African slaves
encountered brutality and cruelty on
plantations in the Americas.

12. Life expectancy on sugar plantations was low due to the brutal working
conditions.

13. The Transatlantic Slave Trade was a tragic period in world history.

14. The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Effects
Causes
Middle
Passage