5/21/135/21/13BR: LIST ONE REASON PORTUGUESE TRADERS BR: LIST ONE REASON PORTUGUESE TRADERS BEGAN TO IMPORT AFRICAN SLAVES TO WORK BEGAN TO IMPORT AFRICAN SLAVES TO WORK IN THE AMERICASIN THE AMERICAS

TodayToday: The Atlantic Slave : The Atlantic Slave TradeTrade

LET’S WORK TOGETHER..LET’S WORK TOGETHER..

• Get your reading quiz results• Pick up the new reading packet “The Atlantic

Slave Trade”• Reading volunteers!• Read and summarize each section (together)• Make test questions for each section• We will have a quiz on this section on Friday!

QUIZ QUESTIONSQUIZ QUESTIONS

1. Which of the following was NOT a reason why Portuguese traders began to import African slaves

a. Africans had experience with farming

b. Skin color made Africans easy to identify as slaves

c. Enslaved African were less likely to escape because they did not know their way around the new world.

d. African slaves were very susceptible to European diseases

QUIZ QUESTIONSQUIZ QUESTIONS

2. Spain and Portugal were key players in developing the African slave trade which was______.

a. Using Aztecs and Incas for work in gold mines

b. Paying native Americans for work in sugar plantations

c. Buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas

d. Using Africans to sail to the New World

3. What was the method used by European slave traders to gather African slaves for trade?

a. They exchanged guns, and other trade goods to African rulers so they would capture slaves for them

4. The Middle Passage refers to

a. The horrible journey that delivered African slaves from Africa to the New World