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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.
The Headright system began in the US state of Virginia.
The Headright system tried to solve the labor shortage problem. It was also a way to attract new colonists. Immigrant colonists were given one headright and could receive one more for each passage they paid for an additional immigrant.
The Headright system also led to too much distribution of land, increasing the tension between the Native Americans and the colonists. It also let to the increase of indentured servitude and slavery.
Wood was the most common material in colonial times.
Cause of French Indian war
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
African traders
Fewer indentured servants arrived as conditions in europe improved.
a primary source description written by a slave
A piece of property.
They were fighting over the fur trade in Canada at the time.
Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete property, to be bought and sold.
fewer europeans became indentured servants
The French and Indian War ended political and cultural influence by the French in North America
sugar
On plantations in southern colonies.
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