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  • Why couldn't Europeans use natives as their slave labor force?
    Disease, refusal to work, breeding with each other, etc.
  • Name four European powers which were fighting for control of the Caribbean Sugar Islands.
    England, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands (Holland), Denmark, etc.
  • What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
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  • Explain the Triangular Trade network.
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  • Where did slaves trafficked in the Transatlantic Slave Trade end up? (three regions)
    North America: ~5%, Caribbean Islands: ~50%, Brazil: ~45%.
  • Name four cash crops grown on Caribbean Islands.
    Sugar, coffee, rice, cotton, indigo, tobacco, etc.
  • What was life like on a sugar plantation?
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  • List three historical examples of slavery. Who abolished slavery in the West in 1830?
    Barbary/Muslim/Islamic, Slavs, Roman, etc.; Christians.
  • Where did the slaves for the Transatlantic Slave Trade come from? Who sold them?
    West Africa; fellow black Africans.
  • What was the most interesting thing you learned today? Why?
    Cool, thanks for sharing! / Wow, do you really not know?