Map Questions, Study Guide Parts 1-3 and Vocabulary

Part 1 Questions With Answers 1. The first Africans to come to the New World came and were treated as Indentured servants 2. Why did Maryland and Virginia have a need for slaves? They needed a more permanent source of labor. 3. What caused slave trade to become a profitable business? Legalizing slavery

4. What did the growing demand for slaves cause in Africa? Violent conflict among African tribes 5. Give 2 ways Africans became slaves. (1) One tribe might capture warriors of another tribe and then sell them into slavery or (2) Raiding parties might kidnap Africans from their villages. 6. What is the Triangular Trade? Shipping routes that connected Europe, Africa, the West Indies, and North America in the transatlantic commerce of slaves and manufactured goods.

7. Where did the Triangular Trade begin and end? England (Europe) 8. Describe the Middle Passage. Forced voyage from Africa to the Americas. It was a physical and psychological nightmare that lasted several weeks or months. 9. List the slave produced items. Tobacco, sugar, cotton, rum, and other slaved produced items

1. What did English captains of ships do to make the most money? Packed as many Africans as possible into the ship 2. How many Africans could “slave” ships carry? About What killed 15-20% of slaves traveling on the ships? Disease caused by overcrowding, spoiled food, and contaminated water, starvation, and thirst

4. What did captains fear most about the Africans? Mutinies 5. Why couldn’t many ships be used after 5 years? The stench and disease that was left behind

Part 3 Questions With Answers 1. What caused the economies and tribes to suffer in Africa while helping to build cities and make people rich in the colonies and England? Slave trade 2. What caused cotton to become the valuable crop in the colonies? Invention of the Cotton Gin 3. What did farmers in the South have a great need for after cotton became the valuable crops? Slave labor

4. How many slaves were living in the “Cotton Belt” of the southern states by 1800? Almost 1 million 5. When was a law passed that should have ended the importing of new slaves in the U.S.? Did the law do what it was put in place to do? No, not at first

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1. Where did the first leg of the Triangular Trade Route begin? Europe (England) 2. What goods were traded for enslaved Africans in West Africa? Alcohol, fire arms, and textiles

3. What was the middle passage or middle leg of the triangular trade route? Route from West Africa to the Caribbean, South America or North America 4. The Africans that survived the Middle Passage were traded for what? Sugar, rice, tobacco, cotton, and rum 5. Where were those goods taken? Europe

the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19 th century. Slave trade -

the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies. Middle passage -

goods carried on a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle. Cargo -

the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point. latitude

the distance measured in degrees east or west on an imaginary line (the Prime Meridian) that runs from the north pole to the south pole and that passes through Greenwich, England longitude