Transatlantic Slave Trade

What is the travel route of slave ships from Africa to the New World?

• Triangular Trade

• The Middle Passage

• Global Trade

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

Allowed 454 African people in ships as long as there was 6 feet of space, or less, per person.

• The Fugitive Act of 1850

• Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Act of Prohibiting Importation of Slaves

True or False: An estimated 2 million Africans died in Middle Passage from murder and suicide.

• True

• False

A powerful way of affirming that slavery was forced upon that person, rather than an inherent condition.

• Hegemony

• Encapsulate

• Enslaved

• Emancipated

What country became an early leader in selling enslaved Africans?

• Portugal

• England

• Spain

• United States

Most African-Americans are historically from civilizations found in which region of the African continent?

• East Africa

• West Africa

• Egypt

• South Africa

What is considered to be the main cause of the slave trade?

• Hatred of Africans

• Importance of sea travel

• European demand for labor

• Mercantilism

True or False: Guns were traded for gold when Europeans first arrived to Africa.

• True

• False

The largest forced migration in history, the ______ brought millions of Africans 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

• Great Migration

• Atlantic slave trade

• Triangle Trade

• Middle Passage

What were some reason(s) slave labor was used by Europeans?

• Cheap Labor

• The indigenous population died due to disease

• Europeans needed gold from Africa

• Labor shortage