Question 1

Slave Trade =

Accepted Answer

The selling of human beings to work WITHOUT pay to perform any type of work for someone else.

Question 2

The Middle Passage

Accepted Answer

The voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas (Colonial America, Central America and South America).

Question 3

Triangular Trade

Accepted Answer

The trading networks in which goods, foods, services and slaves moved between Europe, Africa and the American colonies.

Question 4

Slave Auction

Accepted Answer

The sale in which slaves were sold to buyers who bid for them to work on plantations.

Question 5

Mercantilism Economy

Accepted Answer

The sale and trade of goods and services for a profit $$$$.

Question 6

New World

Accepted Answer

The name given by Europeans to the Americas, which were unknown before the voyages of Christopher Columbus that discovered the Americas.

Question 7

Old World

Accepted Answer

The regions of the world (Europe) that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.

Question 8

Slave Ship

Accepted Answer

Large cargo ships strictly for the purposes of transporting slaves by the hundreds from the coastal ports of West Africa to be sold at auctions in the Americas.

Question 9

The West Indies/Caribbean Islands

Accepted Answer

The area where slave ships traveled.

Question 10

Jamestown, Virginia used sold a large amount of this cash crop to help their town make money

Accepted Answer

Tobacco (which is used as a cash crop in Jamestown)

Question 11

The New England Colonies were NOT good at farming because of the ...

Accepted Answer

*Poor, rocky soil*Cooler climate*Short growing season*Access to Atlantic Ocean

Question 12

Plantation Economy

Accepted Answer

Way to make money using slaves as unpaid workers this was done mostly in the Southern Colonies

Question 13

The Colonies in the South made money by using the slaves as workers on plantations/farms because in the south the soil has the ....

Accepted Answer

most fertile soil,

enough rain and sunshine for crops

has a *9-12 month growing season

Question 14

Plantations =

Accepted Answer

farms in the southern part of the United States that used slaves to work the farms/fields getting cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane and other cash crops.

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