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☆☆☆☆☆The term Middle Passage refers to the transportation of the African people from Africa to the new world as part of the Atlantic slave trade, as it was the middle portion of the triangular trade voyage, also carrying molasses, timber and raw materials to Europe, and manufactured goods back to Africa. The Middle Passage refers to the part of the trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies.
Results of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War, included:
- Increased taxes on the American colonists to pay for the war
- England acquired the former French territories in Canada and owned all the land from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi river.
- French from Acadia were expelled and migrated to Louisiana, forming the Cajun culture
- settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains was forbidden by the Crown
- England acquired formerly French territory in the Caribbean and in India.
- King George III taxed American colonists to pay for the war.
- King George III would not let colonists settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Wood was the most common material in colonial times.
To increase their wealth and power
Gaining income and raw materials
Both groups came against their will.
African traders
They were fighting over the fur trade in Canada at the time.
white people
Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete property, to be bought and sold.
New England
sugar
On plantations in southern colonies.
Pilgrims and Germans
Britain controlled all the land from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River.
-apex (: that word is hard to spell :(
French colonists rarely established large plantations in North America
