Chapter 4 Section 3 The Atlantic Slave Trade

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Chapter 4 Section 3The Atlantic Slave Trade

• Objective Summarize the Atlantic slave trade
  the life of enslaved Africans in the colonies
• Vocabulary Atlantic Slave Trade, Triangular
  Trade, Middle Passage

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Setting the Stage

• Sugar plantations tobacco farms required a
  large supply of workers to make them profitable
  for their owners
• Europeans originally used Native Americas as a
  source of cheap labor but too many died of
  disease brutal treatment
• Eventually, they turned to Africa for workers

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The Causes of African Slavery

• Slavery had existed in Africa for centuries,
  especially within the Islamic Empire, they
  transported 17 million African slaves to Muslim
  lands
• Europeans saw advantage in using Africans in the
  Americas (immunity to disease experience in
  farming)
• The buying selling of Africans for work in the
  Americas became known as the Atlantic Slave Trade
• By the end of the slave trade in 1870, 9.5
  million Africans had been imported to the
  Americas
• Spain Portugal took an early lead in importing
  Africans to the Americas

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Slavery Spreads Throughout the Americas

• As Englands presence in the Americas grew, it
  came to dominate the Atlantic Slave Trade
• Roughly 400,000 Africans were sold to Britains
  North America colonies
• By 1830, 2 million slaves lived in the United
  States
• Many African rulers merchants played a willing
  role in the Atlantic slave trade
• African merchants captured other Africans to be
  enslaved delivered them to the Europeans in
  exchange for gold, guns, other goods

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A Forced Journey

• Triangular Trade transatlantic trading network
  where slaves other goods were carried between
  Africa, England, other colonies in North
  America
• The voyage that brought captured Africans to the
  Americas was known as the middle passage
• Africans were packed into large ships where they
  endured whippings exposure to diseases
• Nearly 20 of Africans aboard each slave ship
  died during the brutal trip because of disease
  physical abuse

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Slavery in the Americas

• Africans usually were auctioned off to the
  highest bidder
• Slaves worked in mines, fields, or as domestic
  servants
• They worked long days suffered beatings
• Slavery was a lifelong condition as well as
  hereditary
• Africans developed a way of life based on their
  cultural heritage, many kept it alive through
  music
• Some slaves openly revolted all over the Americas

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Consequences of the Slave Trade

• The slave trade disrupted tribes tore apart
  families
• The slave trade also introduced guns into Africa
• Africans brought their expertise in agriculture
  as well as culture with art, music, religion,
  goods with them to the new world

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Chapter 4 Section 4The Columbian Exchange
Global Trade

• Objective Describe the Columbian Exchange,
  global trade, mercantilism
• Vocabulary Columbian Exchange, Capitalism,
  Joint-Stock Company, Mercantilism, Favorable
  Balance of Trade

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Setting the Stage

• The colonization of the Americas dramatically
  changed the world
• Colonization resulted in the exchange of new
  items that greatly influenced the lives of people
  throughout the world

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The Columbian Exchange

• The global transfer of food, plants, animals
  during colonization is known as the Columbian
  Exchange
• Ships from the Americas brought thing like
  tomatoes, squash, pineapples, tobacco, cacao
  beans, corn, potatoes, turkey
• Ships from Europe/Africa brought things like
  horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, bananas, yams,
  wheat, rice, oats
• Disease was also apart of the Columbian Exchange
  like small pox, influenza, typhus, malaria

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Global Trade

• Capitalism is an economic system based on private
  ownership on the investment of money in order
  to make a profit
• Merchants traders reinvested those profits in
  even more investments
• The increase in economic activity led to an
  overall increase in many nations money supply
• Joint-stock company is a business in which
  investors pool their wealth for a common purpose,
  then share the profits
• It was considered a safer way to invest

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The Growth of Mercantilism

• Mercantilism is an economic policy under which
  nations sought to increase their wealth power
  by obtaining large amounts of gold silver by
  selling more goods than they bought
• Favorable balance of trade an economic situation
  in which a country sells more good abroad then it
  buys from other countries
• Colonies provided raw materials provided a
  market for a country to sell its goods to