Triangular trade
The middle passage
"floating coffins"
100

This 3-legged trade route connected America, Europe, and Africa.

What is the Triangular Trade?

100

The Middle Passage was a part of this larger trade system.

What is the Triangular Trade?


100

Once purchased, Africans were packed here.

What is below the deck in chains?

200

The first leg of the Triangular Trade involved ships bringing goods like guns and cloth to this continent.

What is Africa?

200

Africans were bound in chains and forced to walk to these.

What are coastal ports?

200

Slaves remained on ships for this long.

What is 3 weeks to 3 months?

300

Slaves were transported to the Americas in this leg of the trade.

What is the Middle Passage?

300

Those who tried to escape during the march were often ___.

What is recaptured and punished?

300

These often occurred due to harsh conditions on board.

What are mutinies or diseases?

400

The third leg involved sending these products (name 2) from America to Europe.

What are sugar and molasses? (Accept cotton, fish, or rum)

400

Survivors waited in these until ships arrived.

What are warehouses and holding pens?

400

About half of the enslaved people died, turning the ships into these.

What are “floating coffins”?

500

Triangular trade made these people very wealthy.

Who are the merchants?

500

The Middle Passage was known for this type of brutal treatment.

What is forced marching, confinement, or cruelty?

500

Some enslaved people committed suicide for this reason.

What is the belief they’d return to their homeland after death?

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