1. Study Guide Parts 1-3 and Vocabulary
The Triangular Trade
Study Guide Parts 1-3 and Vocabulary

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

3. What did the growing demand for slaves cause in Africa?
Violent conflict among African tribes
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.
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.

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

5. Part 2 Question With Answers
What did English captains of ships do to make the most money?
Packed as many Africans as possible into the ship
How many Africans could “slave” ships carry?
About 400
What killed 15-20% of slaves traveling on the ships?
Disease caused by overcrowding spoiled food, and contaminated water, starvation and thirst

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

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

8. How many slaves were living in the “Cotton Belt” of the southern states by 1800?
Almost 1 million
When was a law passed that should have ended the importing of new slaves in the U.S.?
1808
Did the law do what it was put in place to do?
No, not at first

9. Triangular Trade Map Study Guide Questions With Answers
Where did the first leg of the Triangular Trade Route begin?
Europe (England)
What goods were traded for enslaved Africans in West Africa?
Alcohol, fire arms, and textiles

10. 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
The Africans that survived the Middle Passage were traded for what?
Sugar, rice, tobacco, cotton, and rum
Where were those goods taken?
Europe

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