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Effects of Exploration. Slavery and Disease. Directions. Write everything that is written in yellow . Native American Slavery. Europeans, especially in the Caribbean and South America, used Native Americans as forced labor/slaves until they died of overwork and/or disease
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Effects of Exploration Slavery and Disease
Directions • Write everything that is written in yellow.
Europeans, especially in the Caribbean and South America, used Native Americans as forced labor/slaves until they died of overwork and/or disease • Same brutal work conditions
African Slavery • Millions of Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves. • Estimates range between six and ten million or more! • Between six and ten million Africans were brought to the Americas.
Conditions on the ship were horrible. • * No space • * Hot • Men chained together • *Brutal discipline • No restrooms • * No air • * Force fed if enslaved peoplerefused to eat • * Violence
rs Once they arrived… • * Sold to new owner • * 90% of all Africans sent to South America or the Caribbean. • *6 % sent to what is now the United States • Life expectancy in the Caribbean wasless than three years • * Conditions varied from bad to unbearable
Create a graph • The Tainos were the first Native Americans that Columbus encountered. Use the information on the next slide to create a graph showing what happened to the Taino population after contact with Europeans.
Create your graph. • 1. Draw your x axis. Draw your y axis. • 2. Label the x axis YEARS. • 3. Label your y axis POPULATION IN THOUSANDS. • 4. Think about a number scale you can use for the y axis. • 5. Fill in the numbers on the y axis. • 6. Write a title on the top of your graph. • 7. Use the information on the next slide to finish your graph.
X Axis-years Y Axis-population • 1492 – 1,000,000 • 1496 – 950,000 • 1507 – 60,000 • 1508 – 30,000 • 1518 – 3,000 • 1530 – 1148 • 1542 - >500