Triangular Trade & Navigation
What were the three main parts of the Triangular Trade?
Europe → Africa (goods), Africa → Americas (slaves), Americas → Europe (crops)
What percent of enslaved Africans died on slave ships?
What is around 10–15%, sometimes up to 20%
How did enslaved people resist on slave ships?
What is how they refused food, jumped overboard, and revolted.
Why did sugar farming need so many workers?
What is Cutting and boiling sugar cane of nonstop hard labor
How did traders defend slavery?
What is how they said it was needed for profit and approved by God.
What goods did Europeans trade to Africa?
Guns, cloth, alcohol, and metal goods
How were enslaved Africans held on the ships?
What is shackled with chains and packed tightly below deck
What is one famous revolt on a slave ship?
What is The Amistad revolt (1839).
What crop became most important in the U.S. South?
What is Cotton
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
What is a man who survived slavery and wrote about it.
What crops were sent from the Americas to Europe?
What is Sugar, tobacco, cotton, rice, and indigo
What diseases spread quickly on the ships?
What is dysentery, smallpox, measles, and scurvy
How did enslaved people resist on plantations without violence?
What is slowing work, breaking tools, or pretending to be sick.
Who made the most money from the slave trade?
What is European merchants, shipbuilders, plantation owners, and investors.
Who was Mary Prince?
What is an enslaved woman whose story helped the abolition movement.
What natural forces helped ships travel faster?
What is trade winds and ocean currents like the Gulf Stream
How were enslaved Africans mistreated on the journey?
What is they faced beatings, little food, poor sanitation, and abuse
What were maroon communities?
What is Groups of runaway slaves who built hidden villages.
How did slavery hurt Africa?
What is Millions were taken, wars increased, and economies weakened.
Who was a famous British abolitionist?
What is William Wilberforce.
Why did most slave ships go to the Caribbean or Brazil first?
What is winds and currents made those places easier to reach
Why was the Middle Passage so terrible?
What is overcrowding, disease, abuse, and fear made it deadly and horrific
What rebellion led to Haiti’s freedom?
What is the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804)
What long-term effect did slavery leave on the world?
What is Europe and America became richer but left Africa poorer and exploited.
What culture did enslaved people keep alive?
What is Spirituals, work songs, drumming, dance, and religions like Voodoo.