HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Cause:European colonists needed labor to work; Effect:Africans built Americas; brought music/culture
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Cause:the Europeans needed sugar so bought Africans to make rum; Effect:colonists started the triangle trade
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Cause:colonists began to die off due to disease; effect:Africans were imported to do all the work
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Cause:Africans came to the colonies to build wealth; Effect:they were enslaved and made no money
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Detailed explanation-1: -The profits gained from the slave trade gave the British economy an extra source of capital. Both the Americas and Africa, whose economies depended on slavery, became useful additional export markets for British manufacturers. Certain British individuals, businesses, and ports prospered on the basis of the slave trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -Men, women and children were separated, families being torn apart. Overcrowding, poor diet, dehydration and disease led to high death rates. 450, 000 of the 3.4 million Africans transported in British ships died on the Atlantic crossing.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some states, such as Asante and Dahomey, grew powerful and wealthy as a result. Other states were completely destroyed and their populations decimated as they were absorbed by rivals. Millions of Africans were forcibly removed from their homes, and towns and villages were depopulated.
Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery provided the raw material for industrial change and growth. The growth of the Atlantic economy was an integral part of the growth of exports-for example manufactured cotton cloth was exported to Africa. The Atlantic economy can be seen as the spark for the biggest change in modern economic history.
Detailed explanation-5: -Virginia planters developed the commodity crop of tobacco as their chief export. It was a labor-intensive crop, and demand for it in England and Europe led to an increase in the importation of African slaves in the colony.