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COS Standard 1 C

Compare effects of economic, geographic, social and political conditions before and after European explorations of the 15 th -17 th centuries on Europeans, American colonists, Africans and indigenous Americans. . COS Standard 1 C. Chapter 3 Section 2.

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COS Standard 1 C

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  1. Compare effects of economic, geographic, social and political conditions before and after European explorations of the 15th-17th centuries on Europeans, American colonists, Africans and indigenous Americans. COS Standard 1 C

  2. Chapter 3 Section 2 Explaining triangular trade and the development of slavery in the colonies

  3. Slavery • Africa: captured in war • Sold back • Absorbed • Slavery changed when Arabs began to trade for enslaved Africans. • Portuguese purchased slaves to work on sugarcane plantations.

  4. Slavery continued • Sugarcane cultivations requires a lot of hard manual labor. • Europeans transported slaves across the Middle Passage. • At first, they were indentured servants. • Maryland was the 1st colony to recognize slavery. • Virginia enacted slave codes.

  5. Middle Passage

  6. Slavery continued • Slaves were the bottom of the class system • Slavery was essential to plantation society

  7. Triangular Trade • England did not want all the goods that New England produced. • England produced a lot of goods that New England wanted. • Thus, New England had to find a way to sell their goods so they could get goods England wanted to buy.

  8. Triangular Trade continued • Caribbean wants New England’s fish and lumber • New England gets sugar or bills of exchange • New England merchants would take the bills of exchange back to New England and trade them to English merchants for English manufactured goods.

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