1. AP EUROPEAN HISTORY MR. RICK PURRINGTON MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL
Chapter 8 “The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion”
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
MR. RICK PURRINGTON
MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL

2. Eu Overseas Empires
A. Eu domination of New World in 17th C
1. Discovery, exploration, conquest, settlement
2. Advanced Eu technology (ships & guns)
Mercantile Empires early 18th C
A. Sp, Br, Fr, Netherlands (Dutch)
B. Goals of Gov’t Controlled Mercantilism
1. Whoever gets most gold wins
2. Navigation Acts=Br colonies trade w/Br only
Fr/Br Rivalry in N. America
A. Quarrels over fur trade, fishing rights, Native American alliances = Fr and Indian War
African Slave Trade
A. 18th C - Driven by Sp and Br Colonial Empires
B. More Af slaves transported to W. Indies and Brazil than anywhere else
1. 90% of Jamaicans were Af slaves
2. “Triangular Trade” - Middle Passage

3. North Wind Picture Archives
This eighteenth-century print shows bound African captives being forced to a slaving port. It was largely African middlemen who captured slaves in the interior and marched them to the coast.
North Wind Picture Archives

4. Library of Congress
The Slave Ship Brookes This print records the main decks of the 320-ton slave ship Brookes.
Library of Congress

5. V. The Seven Years War
A. Frederick the Great of Pr invaded Saxony
1. Br + Pr vs. Fr + Au
2. War was fought in Eu and in colonial lands
B. Br + Pr win
C Treaty of Paris
1. Br = gains most Fr colonies in N. America, now seen as a world military power but broke
2. Pr = gains prestige in Eu
3. Fr = defeated, embarrassed, and broke

6. VI. The American Revolution
A. Resistance to unfair taxation
1. Br tried to tax colonies to pay for war
2. Colonies responded “no taxation w/o representation!”
3. Paine’s Common Sense aroused revolutionary feelings
4.Continental Congress– “Declaration of Independence”
B. Broader Impact of Am Rev
1. Demonstrated to Eu possibility of gov’t w/o kings
2. What if…?