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The Atlantic Slave Trade and Its Impact on Colonial America

This exploration delves into the tragic voyage of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean, forced into slavery in North and South America and the West Indies during the Middle Passage. It examines the economic framework built on mercantilism and the triangular trade between the American colonies, England, and West Africa, highlighting the significance of cash crops. Additionally, it discusses the Puritans, the Pilgrims’ Mayflower Compact, and dissenters, exploring the dynamic movement of immigrants in colonial America, including the Great Migration and Bacon's Rebellion against colonial authority.

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The Atlantic Slave Trade and Its Impact on Colonial America

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  1. Voyage of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to be sold as slaves in North and South America and the West Indies. Middle Passage

  2. Crops grown mainly to be sold for profits Cash crops

  3. Items that a country sells to other countries. exports

  4. Creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade mercantilism

  5. Pattern of trade that involved the American colonies, England, and West Africa. Triangular trade

  6. Crops that are continuously in demand. Staple crops

  7. Owners of a colony who control its government proprietors

  8. Protestant group made up of people who wanted to reform the Church of England Puritans

  9. Document written by the Pilgrims that established general guidelines for self-government Mayflower Compact

  10. People who disagree with official religious or political opinions dissenters

  11. Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600’s to settle in the Americas Pilgrims

  12. Group of people who developed their own churches and cut all ties with the Church of England Separatists

  13. People who have left the country of their birth to live in another country immigrants

  14. Mass movement of English men, women, and children out of England between 1630 and 1640 Great Migration

  15. Attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the Colonial government in Virginia. Bacon’s Rebellion

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