Atlantic Slave Trade & Columbian Exchange

The majority of slaves that were brought to the American colonies were brought to...

• Work on plantations
• Work on the railroad
• Work building houses
• Work building ships

Which phrase accurately describes the conditions aboard the slave ship?

• Luxurious 
• Accommodating
• Spacious 
• Dark and Claustrophobic 

The part of the slave’s journey aboard the ship between Africa and the American colonies was known as the _________________  _________________

• Triangular Trade Route
• Middle Passage
• Northwest Passage
• Bermuda Triangle

Cash crops in the English colonies such as tobacco, rice, and indigo were sold in Europe in exchange for manufactured goods that _________ ________be produced in the colonies.

• could not
• must be
• wanted to 

What is an economic system, where African slaves were exchanged for raw materials, money, and finished goods? Those countries/continents involved included Ivory Coast  (Africa), Europe, and the Americans.

• Mercantalism
• Triangular Trade
• Market economics
• Feudalism

What products came out of England to supply its colonies?

• Timber and Furs
• Rum and Guns
• Manufactured Goods
• Slaves and Ships

What did the English ship captains typically offer in trade for a cargo of captured African slaves?

• Guns and finished products
• Gold and Silver
• Sugar and Molasses
• Fish and timber

The journeys of Vasco de Gama, Bartolomeu Dias, and Christopher Columbus became possible in the late 1400s because of the:

• support of exploration by the English monarch.
• trade connections established by the Americans.
• effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
• advancements in sea travel.

What were the three reasons for European exploration?

• Game, God, Glory
• Glory, Fame, and God
• God, Glory, and Gold
• Gifts, Greatness, Glory

What did the captains do to show proof of purchase?

• cut off the slaves' ear
• branded them
• cut off their foot
• tied them up in chains 

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