Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Comprehension
Trade
Reading Further/Comprehension
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A region covered by grassland/rainforest that lies near the equator and is also south of the Sahara. Europeans traveled here to get slaves.
West Africa.
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A person who watched what the slaves were doing and were allowed to punish them.
Overseer.
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In general, which slaves had the hardest life?
a) field workers
b) house servants
c) skilled carpenters
d) kitchen gardeners
a) field workers
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What is the name for the pattern of trade routes shown on the map?
Triangular trade.
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What choice did West Africans make about enslaving and trading people?
They refused to take part in the trade, they tried to find enslaved people outside their nations, and they traded people who were already enslaved.
200
A large farm on which crops are grown by slaves.
Plantations.
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The pattern of trade routes that led to the exchange of slaves and good across the Atlantic Ocean was called
The Triangular Trade
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Name a problem that the slaves faced.
Trading slaves for guns, surviving the middle passage, or living as a slave in the colonies.
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The middle passage is from the west coast of __________ to the _____________.
West coast of AFRICA to the AMERICAS.
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Where were most slaves in the West Indies and British North America put to work?
Sugar and tobacco plantations.
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The voyages that slave ships took across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to America was known as the...
Middle Passage
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People from Africa who were bought and sold and forced to work for someone else.
Enslaved Africans.
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What is one example of what Enslaved Africans had to endure while they traveled on the Middle Passage?
Illness, cramped space, and various unfair conditions.
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Where were slaves first transported to after the middle passage?
The West Indies.
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How did people resist enslavement?
They broke tools, they pretended not to understand what they were being told, and they pretended to be hurt or sick.
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If you were to draw a line for the Middle Passage, where would it start and where would it end.
West Africa to the Americas.
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Selling a slave to the person who is going to pay the most money.
Slave Auction
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What was the FIRST thing that happened to captured Africans as they arrived in the American colonies?
They were sold at scrambles/slave auctions.
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Name the 3 parts of the triangular trade?
1. Europeans traded cloth, guns, and other goods for enslaved people from Africa.
2. Middle Passage
3. Traders took American goods, such as tobacco and sugar, to Europe. Then, they took goods made in Europe to Africa. There, they traded the goods for even more enslaved people.
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Why did some slaves pretend not to understand what they were told to do?
It was a form of resistance.
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The exchange of slaves and goods between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa, using shipping routes across the Atlantic Ocean.
Triangular Trade.
500
A public sale where the price was the same for each slave.
Scramble
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What were West Africans known for valuing the most?
Family and ancestors.
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What did Europeans exchange for slaves?
Guns, cloth, iron, rum, and various manufactured goods.
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What type of work might a person who was enslaved be forced to do?
Carpentry, cooking, field work in the plantations