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Atlantic Slave Trade

Atlantic Slave Trade. Key Point #1 Background. Sugar plantations and tobacco farms Native Americans Africans. Key Point #2 Causes . Advantages of Africans in the Americas Immunity Experience in farming Escape. Key Point #3 Atlantic Slave Trade. 1500-1600 (300,000)

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Atlantic Slave Trade

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  1. Atlantic Slave Trade

  2. Key Point #1Background • Sugar plantations and tobacco farms • Native Americans • Africans

  3. Key Point #2Causes • Advantages of Africans in the Americas • Immunity • Experience in farming • Escape

  4. Key Point #3Atlantic Slave Trade • 1500-1600 (300,000) • 1700-1800 (1.3 million) • 1870 (9.5 million)

  5. Key Point #4Triangular Trade Europe Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar North America & South America Guns, Manufacturers Slaves, Gold, Ivory Africa

  6. Key Point #5Journey • The middle passage • Treatment

  7. The Journey

  8. Key Point #6Life in America • Auctioned • Location of work • Violence • Hereditary

  9. Key Point #7Consequences • Africa • Generations lost • Families torn apart • Guns • America • Labor/agriculture • Art, music, religion, food • And??????? • Make your connection

  10. Connections • Experiential • General • Textual

  11. HomeworkMain Idea + Connection • KP(1)+KP(2)+KP(3)+KP(4)+KP(5)+KP(6)+KP(7)=main idea. • No longer than ½ of a page.

  12. The Columbian Exchange • Transfer of foods, plants, and animals Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, pineapples, tobacco and cacao beans Horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, bananas, yams, black eyed peas, wheat, barley, rice and oats Disease (small pox and measles

  13. Mercantilism • Power was based on wealth • Gold and silver vs balance of trade • Self sufficiency • New class of merchants

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