1. Knowledge Connections
Vocabulary 
Migration
Indentured Servant
Term
Definition
Knowledge Connections
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2. How did the Atlantic slave trade get its start?
Essential Question
How did the Atlantic slave trade get its start?

3. Why did Europeans need labor?
European colonies needed labor…
and lots of it….
If they were to survive

4. Who were indentured servants?
European workers in the colonies were known as INDENTURED SERVANTS
They would sign a contract to work for a set number of years in order to pay off their trip
Not nearly enough people signed up!

5. How did the slave trade begin?
Europeans began to enslave Africans
They were obtained from trading posts along the African coasts
This started the ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
The capture and transport of Africans into bondage in the Americas

6. How did Africans help the slave trade?
An active slave trade already existed within Africa
Africans were capturing other Africans
African governments were selling off criminals, debtors, and prisoners or war as slaves

7. How did Africans leaders respond?
Some Africans did oppose the trade of human lives
QUEEN NZINGA Queen of Angola
KING ALFONSO I King of the Kongo
Appealed to the pope to stop the slave trade
Led an army against Portuguese slave traders

8. How did slaves resist?
In the Americas, enslaved Africans escaped and formed runaway communities
In 1841, enslaved Africans led revolts aboard two slave ships – the Amistad and the Creole

9. How did the Atlantic slave trade get its start?
Essential Question
How did the Atlantic slave trade get its start?

10. Find a labor source for the American colonies