Exchange
What was unintentionally exchanged between Europe and the Americas?
Disease
What year did America decide to do away with the slave trade?
1808
What does it mean to be persecuted for your actions?
To serve jail time or death. (to get in trouble)
What year did Columbus find the Americas?
1492
Before the heavy need for slave labor, who worked the hard labor jobs on plantations in the americas?
Indigenous people/natives
What 2 crops did Europe gain a strong appetite for?
sugar and tobacco
What was an absolute monarchy?
A type of government where the king or queen acts as a dictator over their people.
What other two countries outlawed the slave trade before the US?
Denmark 1803
Britain 1807
What popular animal was heavily taken from the americas and brought to Europe?
Turkeys
Why was there a heavy need for slave labor in the americas? (2 causes)
Demand went up for new crops and indigenous people were dying from diseases
What was the homestead act of 1862
160 acres of land in the west americas if lived on and farmed for 5 years
Why were the articles created to give all the power to the states and not the federal government?
They were creating a government where people had a say and they were scared it'd go back to a monarchy style of government if the federal government had any power.
What was the main crop farmed in the americas and sent to Europe?
Sugar cane
What was being traded in the triangular trade?
raw materials us to europe
manufactured goods Europe to Africa
slaves africa to us
What was the purpose for creating the triangular trade?
To solve the major need for slave labor in the americas
List all 4 push factors for people wanting to leave Europe.
1. Less land
2. Less jobs
3. Religious and political persecution
4. Escaping famine and poverty
What was the columbian exchange?
The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
What were the names of all 3 passages in the triangular trade?
Europe to africa (outward passage)
Africa to america (middle passage)
America to Europe (homebound passage)
What was a constitutional monarchy?
A type of government where the king or queen has little power and the constitution reigns supreme.
List all 4 pull factors for people wanting to go to the Americas.
1. More land (homestead act)
2. More jobs
3. Political and religious freedom
4. Promise of a better life