DATE: _______________The Atlantic World: Slave Trade, The Columbian Exchange, and Global Trade (20.3, 20.4)

OBJECTIVES:1. We will be able to understand the cause of African slavery and how it spread throughout the Americas.2. We will be able to explain the consequences of the slave trade.3. We will be able to assess the impact of the Columbian Exchange on the world.4. We will be able to describe the economic impact of global trade on European powers.

Setting the Stage: The Slave Trade

Death of Native Americans Caused A Need for Cheap Laboro ______________________________________________

A History of Slavery in Africao 600-1600 Muslims transported 17 million Africans to

Muslim Lands Europeans See Advantages of African Slaves

o Exposed to ____________________, Experienced farming, Less likely to escape because of new lands, _________________

_______________________________________ -Buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas (1500-1870=9.5 Million Africans to the Americas)

AFRICANS sold AFRICANS to Europeans (Kidnap, war)

European and African Influence

____________ and _______________ lead the way in the 1600so Grew with demand for _____________ (Portugal), Gold and Silver (Spain)

British dominate1700-1800 and bring 1.7 million to West Indieso Africans helps enslave for profits

The Brutal _____________________________o Travel of capture _________________________ from Africa to the ______________________________

Estimate _____________________ Perished

______________________________-Transatlantic Trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americas.

Slave Life in America and Consequences

________________________ o Sold, poor conditions,

beatings, and long days Resistance

o Music, Stories (keeping culture)

o Less Productive (breaking tools, uprooting plants, slow work)

o _________________

DATE: _______________Images of the Slave Trade: What do they tell you?

1:Slave Ship

_______________________

2: Slave Compound Africa

_______________________

3: Restraining Devices

_______________________

4: Packing of Slaves

_______________________ Consequences

o African cultures lost generations of people, families torn aparto Economic and cultural development of Americaso Large ________________________________ populations still today

Columbian Exchange (Diagram On Other Sheet)

The global transfer of foods, plants, animals, and humans during the colonization of the Americas

Items to the New World Items to the Old World Diseases (Small Pox, Influenza)-Kills large

populations Iron Tools and Plow-Able to plow more

land and have more food Wheat and Rice Gunpowder-Change warfare Horses-Revolutionize Society Pigs-BACON (more food to eat) Slaves Sugar Cane-Increases need for slaves but

also makes Old World rich

Tobacco-Economic and Health Cotton Indigo Corn-Easy to grow nutritious crop-

increase population Potatoes- Easy to grow nutritious crop-

increase population Beans Tomatoes Gold and Silver-Wealth Syphilis

Global Trade and Economic Change

New _______________________ from Americas + Increased ________________ = New ________________ and _________________ Practices (1500s, 1600s)

o ________________________________ economic system based on private ownership and investment of resources, such as money

for profit Increased profits for merchants and reinvest in trade and exploration--Europe

grew and flourished ____________________________________

o Investors buying shares in a stock in a company, combining wealth for common purpose Invest in colonies, little risk though (ex. Dutch East India Company)

Growth of Mercantilism

_______________________________ (Diagram on back)-Economic Theory-Held that a country's power depended mainly on its wealth (MORE GOLD!)

o Important to have colonies for resources and to acquire gold Ultimate goal to have _________________________________________________

Sell more goods abroad than you buy abroad=Self-Sufficient OUTCOME: Growth of towns and rise of merchants, Increased wealth of European Nations, and national identity

with monarch power

DATE: _______________