Columbian Exchange and Slavery

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What are three foods that were brought to Europe, Africa, and Asia from the Americas by the Columbian Exchange?

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Turkey, peanuts, and cacao

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What animal was brought to the Americas from Europe?

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Horses

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Who did Spanish colonists use at first to work on plantations in the Americas?

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Indigenous people

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Why did it become difficult for plantation owners in places like the Caribbean to use Indigenous people for cheap labor?

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Disease and war had killed too many of them

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How did the first Africans arrive in the English North American colonies?

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By Dutch pirates trading them for food

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What were the components of the trading triangle that existed among Europe, Africa, and North America beginning in the mid-1600s CE?

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Iron products, enslaved Africans, and raw materials

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About what percentage of enslaved Africans did not survive the Middle Passage?

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15 percent

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What adjectives would you use to describe the experience of the Middle Passage?

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Crowded, inhumane, dangerous

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What happened to enslaved Africans who survived the Middle Passage?

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They were sent to plantations in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the English colonies in North America

Front

True or false: slavery was only found in the Southern colonies.

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False