Bellringer:

• WHAT IS A COLONY? Explain how a colony works in at least 3 sentences.

• HW: Create vocab cards for:• Circumnavigate, Conquistador, colonies,

Atlantic Slave trade, Triangular trade, middle passage, Columbian Exchange, The New World, plantation, cash crop,

Colony

• A territory that is settled and ruled by a people of a distant land

• Ex. The Spanish colonies were settled by Spanish people and ruled by the Spanish king, even though they were located in the New World

Europeans

• Manufacturing:– Took the raw

materials from the New World and made them into manufactured goods

– Eg. Cotton Shirts

Slave Trading/Kidnapping

Europeans set up slave fortresses on the Western coast of Africa.

They traded manufactured goods with wealthy African merchants for slaves

African Resistance

• King Affonso of Kongo“Merchants are taking every day our natives,

sons of the land and sons of our nobles and vassals and our relatives, because the theives and men of bad conscience… grab them and get them to be sold… Our country is being completely depopulated… It is our will that in these Kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them.”

Middle PassageThe voyage across the Atlantic of slave

ships.

“Floating Coffins”- up to half the Africans on board died

Resistance on boats

Triangular Trade

• New World–Sugar plantations• Sugar, Rum, Molasses

–Cotton plantations–Tobacco plantations

Geography of the New World