How did transcontinental contact lead to the emergence of a global exchange in the 1500s? Claim: The contact between Afroeurasia and the Americas in the 1500s influenced trade through the exchange of new agricultural products of which changed the diets of individuals as well as the use of peoples for slaves in the Americas due to the many plantations used to cultivate crops for export, both of which increased trade, for the purpose of increasing income and economic growth, benefitting only the Europeans through the use of African people and the brutal treatment of Native Americans, generating a one-sided global exchange between Europe and the Americas. ¶Paragraph 1:…
During this time period slaves really had to work to keep everything going and make sure everyone had what they needed. Slaves really got a lot done. Slaves kept the plantations running when their masters were fighting. They made sure everything was where it was suppose to be and made sure everything was going smooth. If the slaves wasn’t running the plantations there would’ve been some big problems.…
The Europeans did this because the gold that was out in the open was gone and it was to be mined so they had to hire people to do it. (Document 1) Slavery was one form of exploitation. Its special characteristics included the idea that slaves were property. Their labor power was at the…
Industrialization was in full force throughout most of the United States and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 allowed the “peculiar institution” to become the most profitable industry in the world. The cotton gin streamlined the laborious task of cotton sorting. Cotton soon surpassed tobacco as the United States’ most valued export. Cotton processed in the south was processed in textile plants in New England, which was bolstered by Elias Howe’s invention of the first, cross-stitching sewing machine in 1846. Slaves were insured by northern insurance companies and clothed with “slave cloth” from textile mills.…
White people were lazy so they needed people to care for their livestock, cook for them, take care of their children, wash their clothes, harvest cotton and tobacco that they had to sell.…
Indentured servitude and the slavery system both played a major role in the development of colonial economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Prior to the French and Indian war, the American colonies mostly ruled themselves and were in a relatively good economic situation. Despite their successfulness with political issues, the colonists desperately needed help with labor as there was so much work that needed to be done to the land. The need for labor was fulfilled in two ways; indentured servants and African slaves. While the to groups were treated differently and received different levels of respect, both worked the land and ultimately helped the colonists economy to boom.…
Rice and tobacco were very valuable at the time and were grown as cash crops. Planters used waterways to transport goods. Waterways made it easier for ships to tie up at plantation docks. The plantation economy was getting bigger and bigger each day this caused planters a rough time to find laborers to work for their plantations. This led planters to use enslaved Africans for labor.…
I’m a owner of a plantation and If have 34 slaves. (1) If one of my slaves runs away and gets caught I will beat them.(3) When the slaves hunters caught the runaway slaves they would put them in shackles. (1) If my slaves made it to one of the free states the hunter would have to quit looking for the slaves.(3).…
One of the first economic issues that arose in the New World was a labor shortage in comparison to the abundance of land- the opposite of which had been the case in Europe. Contributing to the scarcity of labor was the fact that “few settlers wanted to work for others when they could get farms of their own.” One of the only practical solutions to this problem was to seek labor elsewhere, in other parts of the world. This led to the adoption of enslaved Africans as the primary labor source in the developing colonies, an event that would irrevocably entwine slavery and the Southern economy. Also, because there were so few workers available, the colonists that chose to work were able to demand high wages for their service (Goldfield et al. 73).…
Europeans played the role of producing massive amounts of sugar and Africans played the role of being slave traders. Page 628 Guided Reading Question: Change In what different ways did the Atlantic slave trade transform African societies?…
Economically, slavery was good for field labor, but where skill and money were involved, problems were…
With the large number of slaves being introduced into the colonies they had a great impact on the economy and in reshaping the population as a whole. The Africans brought their expertise of travel, planting and hunting to the new world. The African dugout canoe became the chief means of transportation in the colonies. The Africans’ fishing nets that were copied by the mainlanders turned out to be much more effective than the ones the English had invented as were their techniques of cattle…
In the 1620’s to 1650’s 13 British colonies in North America depend on slave workers. Slaves were being sold to the colonies since 1619. Slavery did not make up most of the labor until the late 17th century. Africans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 as they were originally headed to Mexico. African slaves began to work alongside the white indentured servants who performed most of the labor.…
These slaves grew the cash crops of coffee and tobacco in the Americas. These were traded to the Western Europeans that were used in the cash crops in coffee houses. African women changed in the jobs that they performed, they had to do more jobs that were traditionally a man’s work. As a result of most of the men being captured and sold into slavery, there were jobs that needed to be done even though there was a scarcity of men. Africa’s economy became more involved and benefited from the slave trade.…
While one might argue that the forced labor of Africans by the colonialists simply created infrastructure to advance industrialize and advance the physical framework of Africa, in reality the industrialization of Africa created slave labor in Africa that dehumanized, crippled and abused the African people. Though initially forced to work and create infrastructure, later Africans became financially dependent on these jobs; the result was migrant labor and African people having to leave their homes to find work and support their…