triangular trade & Middle Passage

What was one difference between slaves and indentured servants in 1700s colonial society?

• Slaves had many rights, and indentured servants did not.

• Indentured servants exchanged work for freedom while slaves were treated as property of their owner

• Indentured servants often moved up to become part of the gentry (wealthy), class and slaves rose up to the middle class.

• Slaves received money for their work, indentured servants did not.

“I was soon put down under the decks. . . . The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us. . . . The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying rendered [made] the whole a scene of horror.”

• The passage above by a young African forced by slave traders to take the journey from Africa to the West Indies describes the conditions:

• during the Middle Passage.

• in the Tidewater

• of typical immigrants

• on sugar plantations

Based on the information shown on this map, On the Middle Passage enslaved people were shipped to

• the West Indies and English colonies.

• the English colonies and Africa.

• Europe and English colonies

• the West Indies and Europe.

Why was the enslaved population so much larger in the South than in the North?

• The southern colonies were settled first.

• Southerners welcomed people from all races and cultures.

• The South had the better climate.

• The agricultural system in the South depended on slave labor

Trade routes that ran between the 13 Colonies, West Africa, West Indies, & England was known as

• Triangle Trade

• Middle Passage

• Slave Trade

• Mercantilism

The Stage of the Triangle Trade where slaves from Africa were traded to the Americas for goods is known as

• The Triangle Trade

• the Middle Passage

• The Slave Trade

• Mercantilism

Guns & beer were traded for iron & Gold between these 2 countries in the Triangle trade

• England & Africa

• England & the 13 Colonies

• Africa & the 13 Colonies/West Indies (America)

• the 13 Colonies & the West Indies

persons who exchanged work for freedom are known as

• slaves

• indentured servants

• both indentured servants and slaves

• courier de bois

finished goods, when resources are used to make/produce a product such as clothes and furniture

• raw materials

• manufactured goods

• slaves

• all of the above

Furniture & clothes were traded for lumber, cotton, & tobacco between these two countries along the triangle trade

• England & Africa

• England & the 13 British Colonies

• Africa & the 13 Colonies/West Indies (Americas)

• France & England