AP European History / Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration
1.9 The Slave Trade
Notes
Europeans traded enslaved Africans to work plantations in the Americas (sugar, tobacco). The triangular trade linked Europe, Africa and the Americas. The Middle Passage was deadly.
Practice
The Middle Passage was the:
Triangular trade.
The main crop driving the Atlantic slave trade:
Caribbean plantations.
The triangular trade linked:
Atlantic system.
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