Transatlantic Slave Trade
What was the transatlantic slave trade?
The forced movement of Africans to the Americas.
What was the Middle Passage?
The ocean journey enslaved Africans endured to the Americas.
What does resistance mean?
Fighting back against oppression.
What did enslaved people lack under U.S. law?
Legal rights and citizenship.
What amendment ended legal enslavement in the U.S.?
The 13th Amendment.
Which three regions were connected by the transatlantic slave trade?
Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Describe conditions on slave ships.
Overcrowded, violent, unsanitary, and deadly.
Name one way enslaved Africans resisted during the Middle Passage.
Revolts, refusing to eat, or jumping overboard.
How were free African Americans treated by U.S. laws?
They had limited rights and faced restrictions.
What war led to the end of slavery?
The Civil War.
Who were some of the first Africans to arrive in what became the United States?
Africans who arrived with Spanish/Latino explorers.
Why did many enslaved people die during the Middle Passage?
Disease, abuse, starvation, and suicide.
What does resilience mean?
Surviving and staying strong despite hardship.
What was partus sequitur ventrem?
A law that made a child’s status follow the mother.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
An order that freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
Why was the transatlantic slave trade important to European economies?
It provided forced labor for plantations
What do slave ship diagrams show?
How tightly enslaved people were packed.
Why was cultural resistance important for enslaved Africans?
It helped preserve identity and community.
How did partus sequitur ventrem affect families?
It made slavery permanent across generations.
Why didn’t the Emancipation Proclamation end slavery everywhere?
It didn’t apply to all states.
How large was the transatlantic slave trade?
Millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic.
Why were these diagrams important to abolitionists?
They exposed the cruelty of slavery
How did resistance challenge the idea that enslaved people accepted slavery?
It showed they actively fought against it.
Why did this law benefit enslavers?
It increased enslaved populations and profits.
Why is it important to remember how slavery ended?
To understand freedom, resistance, and ongoing struggles.