The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The forced movement of enslaved Africans to the Americas is known as this.
The Atlantic Slave Trade
This individual is given credit for starting the Columbian Exchange and "discovering" the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The British East India Company and Dutch East India Company became political powers by taking over other lands and establishing these and controlling these territories.
What are colonies?
These are the two factors of migration.
What are push and pull factors?
True or False. Due to forced migration, suffering, and exploitation on a massive scale, the Transatlantic Slave Trade would be considered a crime against humanity today.
What is true
This is the journey enslaved Africans made across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the middle passage.
This animal dramatically changed transportation in the Americas after it was brought from Europe.
What are horses?
The Sepoy Mutiny in 1857 (also known as the Indian Rebellion) led to the demise of this trading company.
What is the British East India Company (EIC)?
Having violence, war or famine in your home country are examples of this factor of migration.
What are push factors?
The trade routes linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas were known as this.
What is Triangle Trade?
This economic system of farming depended heavily on enslaved labor in the Americas.
What is the plantation system?
This is the global transfer of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This joint stock trading company was created primarily to control trade in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian Islands.
What is the Dutch East India Company (VOC)?
Finding a better job opportunity abroad is an example of this factor of migration.
What is a pull factor?
A change in diets, a spread of calorie-rich crops, and increase of population in Europe was a result of this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
European colonizers turned to Africa for enslaved labor because Indigenous American populations declined from this.
What is disease?
This crop, introduced by Indigenous peoples, revolutionized European settlers farming, and contributed to Europeans surviving in the New World.
What is corn (maize)?
Business entities where investors pooled their resources to fund large-scale ventures, sharing in the profits and risks are known as this.
What were joint stock companies?
Seeking political freedom abroad is an example of this type of factor of migration.
What is a pull factor?
Unfair exploitation of colonies and their resources occurred because of this economic system, which measured wealth in gaining silver and gold.
What is Mercantilism?
The greatest percentage of African Slaves were brought to this country.
What is Brazil?
The production of this crop, which contributed to centuries of abusive slave labor, began in Jamaica in 1515.
What is sugar?
The VOC was founded in this city.
What is Amsterdam?
People fleeing a civil war in their home country are responding to this factor of migration.
What is a push factor?
This European country transported the MOST enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
What is Portugal?