Triangular Trade
This was the three-legged trading system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This region had rocky soil, cold winters, and relied on shipbuilding and fishing.
What is New England?
This term means “property” and was used to describe enslaved people as if they were objects.
What is chattel?
This term means being legally freed from slavery.
What is emancipation?
This ocean was crossed during the Middle Passage.
What is the Atlantic?
Europe sent goods like guns, rum, and manufactured items to this continent as part of the trade.
What is Africa?
This region had rich soil and produced grains, earning the nickname “the Breadbasket Colonies.”
What are the Middle Colonies?
Small acts like breaking tools or working slowly are examples of this type of resistance.
What is passive resistance?
A person who looks for freedom rather than “running away from a master” is better described as this.
What is a freedom-seeker?
The Triangular Trade connected the 13 Colonies to these two other continents.
What are Europe and Africa?
Enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic during this deadly part of the Triangular Trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
This region relied heavily on plantation farming and slave labor.
What are the Southern Colonies?
Running away or rebelling are examples of this type of resistance.
What is active resistance?
This difference describes how indentured servants and slaves.
What is working for a set number of years vs. working for life and your descendants working for life.
This 1793 law allowed enslavers to capture escaped enslaved people even in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793?
Sugar, tobacco, cotton, and other raw materials traveled from this region back to Europe.
What is the Americas?
Name one difference between colonial farm life and colonial city life.
Farms: self-sufficient, isolated, hard labor.
Cities: busy, crowded, shops, trades, fire risk.
What was the destination of most slave ships?
Where was the Caribbean and South America?
The term enslaved person change the way we view a person in bondage in this way.
How does it show the person’s humanity, emphasizing that slavery was something done to them, not what they are.
This term refers to a person’s ability to make choices or take action, even under oppression or difficult circumstances.
What is agency?
Name one raw material shipped from the colonies to Europe and one manufactured good sent back.
Raw material: cotton, tobacco, sugar, timber, rice.
Manufactured good: cloth, rum, guns, metal goods.
Colonies existed to benefit their European mother countries. What did colonies provide that the mother countries wanted?
What are raw materials and resources.
The reason the “Door of No Return” was given its name.
What is because it was the last exit enslaved Africans passed through before being forced onto ships—they would not return home.
Concepts like freedom, agency, and chattel applied to Ona Judge in these ways.
She showed agency when she escaped, she was treated as chattel by the Washingtons, and she sought freedom/emancipation.
This state was the first one to completely abolish slavery within its borders.
What is Massachusetts? (1783)