Question

As Europeans settled more colonies, the slave trade grew. Slaves worked the Spanish sugar plantations in the Caribbean Islands of Cuba and Haiti. They also worked the Portuguese sugar plantations in Brazil. The English forced slaves to work in the southern colonies of North America.

What lands were African slaves brought to? Why?

List three reasons for the deaths of many Native American Indians after the conquest and subsequent colonization of the Americas: ______________________________
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Who did Europeans use to replace a dying Native American Indian population?

Why was this slave trade called the “Transatlantic Slave Trade”?
When did the Transatlantic Slave Trade occur?
What was the “Middle Passage”?
Provide three facts about the “Middle Passage”

Answer 1

Three reasons of the deaths of native Americans:
New illnesses that their immune systems couldn't cope with.
Genocides so the settlers could have the good land.
Starvation from lack of rations and poor infertile land on resevations