The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Match the following

• to give reasons for why an action or thing is good and right

• vulnerable

• exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

• Colonise

• someone who is legally owned by another person

• to justify

• send settlers to a place and establish political control over it

• slave

• to make someone a slave

• enslave

​ (a)   were traded from ​Britain to Africa.

​ (b)   were traded from ​Africa to America.

​ (c)   were traded from Africa to Britain.

• Manufactured goods
• Slaves
• Raw goods

What is this?

What was the trip from Africa to America usually called?

• the middle passage

• the Trans-atlantic trip

• The Slave passage

• the Trans-atlantic Journey

What was the impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa?

• Depopulation (less people)

• Less conflict

• Famine

• Destruction of traditional cultures

Some slaves decided to jump overboard and drowned instead of remaining on the slave ship.

• True

• False

African slaves were in demand for the New World because.

• so many native Americans died from imported diseases

• native peoples frequently escaped into the hinterlands.

• sugar plantations in the Caribbean required considerable labor.

• Spanish and Portuguese conquerors disdained manual labor.

When did the Atlantic Slave Trade begin?

• 1400s
• 1500s
• 1600s
• 1700s

Why did so many people die on the Middle Passage?

• Slave traders usually purchased unhealthy individuals

• Disease and malnutrition

• Overloaded ships often sank

• Successful rebellions on board ships took many lives

What negative effect did the Atlantic slave trade have on West Africa?

• Animism was no longer practiced in Africa

• population decreased in West African tribes

• European industrial factories were established throughout Africa

• Africans across the continent hired Europeans to train their military