Vocabulary
This term describes the forced voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that transported millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas.
Middle Passage
These three regions were connected by the system commonly called Triangular Trade.
Europe, Africa, the Americas
The Middle Passage crossed this ocean.
Atlantic Ocean
European demand for sugar and tobacco encouraged the expansion of these large agricultural operations.
Plantations
New Orleans is located along this major river.
Mississippi River
This term describes the Atlantic trading system that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the movement of goods, resources, and enslaved people.
Triangular Trade
Manufactured goods such as textiles and metal goods generally traveled from this region to Africa.
Europe
Enslaved Africans were transported primarily from Africa to this region during the Middle Passage.
The Americas
As plantation agriculture expanded, demand for this also increased.
Labor
This NFL team plays its home games in New Orleans.
New Orleans Saints
This economic system encouraged European nations to increase their wealth and power by controlling trade, and maintaining a favorable balance of trade.
Mercantilism
Sugar, tobacco, molasses, and other colonial products were transported primarily from this region across the Atlantic.
The Americas
Overcrowding, disease, inadequate food and water, and physical abuse are examples of these aboard slave ships.
Conditions experienced by enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage?
Complete the chain:
European Demand → Plantation Expansion → ________ → Increased Forced Transportation of Africans
Increased demand for labor?
This famous New Orleans celebration includes parades, floats, marching bands, and krewes.
Mardi Gras
This term refers to the effect that an event, system, or decision has on trade, jobs, production, wealth, or the overall economy.
Economic impact
The forced transportation of enslaved Africans represented this portion of the Atlantic trading system.
Middle Passage
The Middle Passage demonstrates this because Africans were forcibly removed from their homes and transported thousands of miles against their will.
Forced migration
Profits from plantation crops encouraged merchants and plantation owners to do this, helping the system continue.
Expand plantation production and Atlantic trade?
New Orleans is widely recognized as the birthplace of this form of American music.
Jazz
Under this system of slavery, enslaved people were legally treated as property that could be bought, sold, inherited, and forced to work for life.
Chattel slavery
Rather than simply exchanging products, Triangular Trade helped create this type of relationship among Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Interconnected Atlantic Economic System
Historians argue that the Middle Passage demonstrates dehumanization. Give two pieces of evidence that support this conclusion.
Responses may include overcrowding, confinement, shackling, violence, inadequate food/water, disease, separation from family, treatment as property, or other evidence studied in class.
Explain how European consumer demand could ultimately contribute to an increase in the forced transportation of Africans across the Atlantic.
European demand → profitable crops → plantation expansion → increased demand for labor → increased enslavement and forced transportation of Africans.
This historic New Orleans neighborhood, known for Bourbon Street, Jackson Square, and distinctive architecture, is the oldest neighborhood in the city.
French Quarter/Vieux Carré