Middle Passage

What is the Middle Passage?

• Water Route Through North America
• European slave trade with India
• European Slave trade with North America
• European slave trade with the Americas

Why were Africans captured and forced to work in the Americas?

• to share riches and wealth with them
• to provide more workers for the plantations
• to give them diseases
• to spread Christianity

When slaves were loaded onto boats to be taken and sold, this part of the triangular trade route was called what?

• the American Passage
• the Middle Passage
• the Lower Passage
• the African Passage

The middle passage was apart of what trading system

• Triangular Trade

• African Trade

• Square Trade

• Gold Mine Trade

What happen to the slaves when they got to the markets?

• Traded or sold for goods

• Beaten

• Chained and Whipped

• Packed on ships

The triangular Trade is best described as which of the following?

• Trade routes between African, Europe and the Americans during the Atlantic Slave trade.

• Trade routes over the silk route

• Trade routes between the new world and old world

• Trade routes that encompass the entire globe.

Ships left Europe loaded with....

• Slaves

• Raw Goods

• Manufactured goods

• Tools

Which of the following is NOT true about the Middle Passage.

• It was from Africa to the Americas

• The Journey took 5-12 weeks

• Disgusting conditions

• The individuals were given plenty of room and food.

Captains took fewer slaves in hope to reduce sickness and death....this is called...

• Loose packing

• Tight packing

• Wrap packing

Captains carried as many slaves as their ship could hold-> many died on voyage.

• Loose packing

• tight packing