Triangular Trade & Arrival of Africans in North America

Where did the first enslaved Africans in North America arrive in August 1619?

• Jamestown Settlement

• Point Comfort at Fort Monroe (Hampton, Virginia)

• Veracruz in New Spain

• Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts

Where were the first enslaved Africans in North America originally from?

• Mali Empire

• Ndongo Kingdom

• Kingdom of Benin

• Ethiopian Empire

Why is Point Comfort at Fort Monroe historically significant in early Virginia history?

• It was the location where the first permanent English capital was established.

• It was the landing site where the first recorded Africans arrived in English North America.

• It was the battlefield that ended the American Revolution.

• It was the main trading post with Native nations in the 1500s.

Where is Point Comfort located?

• On the Chesapeake Bay near the entrance at Hampton, Virginia

• Along the James River far inland near Richmond

• On the Potomac River bordering Maryland

• On the Atlantic coast of North Carolina

What was the goal of many colonial slave laws?

• To encourage plantation owners to pay wages to workers

• To control the lives of enslaved people and ensure they remained enslaved

• To attract new settlers to the Northern colonies

• To protect enslaved people from harsh treatment

Which one of these answers led to the need for slavery or forced servitude in the Americas?

• The development of plantations and cash crops

• War and Conquest

• The Columbian Exchange

• Fear of African uprisings

Lable what was traded between each continent.

a

b

c

Raw Materials

Enslaved People

Manufanctured Goods

Sort the Economic Consequences of the Slave Trade on Africa and Europe/the Americas:

Groups:

(a) Africa

,

(b) Europe & the Americas

• Hurt economic development

• Cities became wealthy.

• Lost workers

• lost natural resources

• Profits for factory and platation owners.

Why were European nations interested in Africa's Human Resources?

• To establish political dominance over the continent.
• To promote cultural exchange and understanding.
• To secure military bases for strategic purposes.
• To be a source of labor in American colonies.

Sort the political consequences of the slave trade on Africa and Europe/the Americas

Groups:

(a) Africa

,

(b) Europe & the Americas

• Divisions over slavery & abolition.

• Weaked ability to defend themselves from colonizations.

• Rivalries between kigdoms got worse.

• Violent slave rebellions.