USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Travel across the Atlantic Ocean was much more difficult for American colonists during the colonial period (1600-1799) than it is today.

Detailed explanation-2: -Crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the colonial period was a gruesome, life-threatening endeavor for all travelers, regardless of wealth or seamanship.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Transatlantic” refers to the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. “Trans” is a Latin word meaning across or through, and “Atlantic” is the vast ocean that spans between the Americas and Africa (stretching to Europe and England).

Detailed explanation-4: -Read a brief summary of this topic. English Channel, also called The Channel, French La Manche, narrow arm of the Atlantic Ocean separating the southern coast of England from the northern coast of France and tapering eastward to its junction with the North Sea at the Strait of Dover (French: Pas de Calais).

Detailed explanation-5: -It linked the nations and peoples that inhabited the Atlantic litoral of North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe. The main empires that built the Atlantic World were the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch; entrepreneurs from the United States played a role as well after 1789.