1. Age of Exploration LT: LT: I can identify the Columbian Exchange, Triangular Trade, and Middle Passage. The demand for slaves increased when _______. A.They were bought by Germans for agricultural labor. B.The Americas were discovered in the 1490s. C.The Spice Island were discovered. D.They were used by Southwest Asians for hard labor.

2. Agenda 1.Test Corrections---Put your name on it 2.Unit 2 Notes---be sure your review is in there 3.Columbian Exchange, Triangular Trade, & Middle Passage Notes 4.Vocabulary 5.Columbian Exchange Reading

4. The Columbian Exchange A.It was a global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas 1.Corn and potatoes came to Europe, Asia, Africa 2.Bananas, black-eyed peas, yams came to Americas 3.Cattle, pigs, horses came to Americas 4.Diseases came to Americas

6. Mercantilism Believed a country’s power depended on its wealth Get more gold/silver Selling more than buying exporting more than importing

7. Capitalism When you make money, YOU want to keep it! Capitalism = based on private ownership of property Right of a business to earn a profit on money it has invested Do we have capitalism in the United States?

8. Triangular Trade LT: LT: I can identify the Triangular Trade and Middle Passage and their impact. The pattern of trade that connect the old and new world is called….. A.Spice Trade B.Middle passage C.Triangular trade D.Columbian Exchange

9. Agenda 1.Notes---Triangular Trade 2.Columbian Exchange Reading 3.Vocabulary

10. Triangular Trade

11. Trade route in 1500s-1800s between: Europe Africa Americas To obtain goods not from their homeland

12. What went where?

13. Atlantic Slave Trade: Middle Passage “Middle” of the Triangular Trade Went from Africa to the Americas Roughly 20 million Africans were taken from their homes Were taken by force Bribed leaders of their tribes to sell their own people

14. 300-400 packed in a tiny area 1-6 months Disease was prevalent Many died along the way

22. Clip from Amistad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nePOpkYwjY

23. Columbian Exchange Reading Complete reading What you do not finish will be taken up Monday for a grade