Vocab
What does the word Indigenous mean?
Native to a country or area (Native Americans)
Which BEST describes the traveling conditions of enslaved Africans being taken to the Americas?
Chained close together in the bottom of the ship
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Transporting African Americans from Africa to America
The majority of enslaved people brought to the Americas
Were captured from West African coastal tribes.
What is the New World?
North and South America that was "discovered" by Europeans.
Europeans usually obtained enslaved people in Africa by which method?
Buying them
What is Colonization?
Europeans taking over countries and land that was already discovered by those indigenous to the land
Within a century of the conquests in Latin America by Spain and Portugal, the native population had declined considerably from battle and disease. To offset this loss of labor, Spain and Portugal
Imported slaves from Africa.
Bonus: What does the word Hacienda mean?
A large estate or plantation with a dwelling house.
Choose the THREE answers that describe the Transatlantic Slave Trade
1. People were captured by force and taken from Africa.
2. The "Middle Passage" of the journey could take weeks or months to complete.
3.Enslaved people crossed the ocean and were taken to North and South America.