EFFECTS OF EXPLORATION

Slavery and Disease

Directions Write everything that is written in yellow.

NATIVE AMERICAN SLAVERY

Europeans, especially in the Caribbean and South America, used Native Americans as forced labor/slaves until they died of overwork and/or disease

Same brutal work conditions

Millions of Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves.

Estimates range between six and ten million or more!

Between six and ten million Africans were brought to the Americas.

African Slavery

Conditions on the ship were horrible.

* No space * Hot Men chained

together *Brutal discipline No restrooms

* No air * Force fed if

enslaved people refused to eat

* Violence

Once they arrived… * Sold to new

owner * 90% of all

Africans sent to South America or the Caribbean.

*6 % sent to what is now the United States

Life expectancy in the Caribbean was less than three years

* Conditions varied from bad to unbearable

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Diseases

Smallpox and Measles

Chicken Pox and Mumps

Create a graph The Tainos were the first

Native Americans that Columbus encountered. Use the information on the next slide to create a graph showing what happened to the Taino population after contact with Europeans.

Create your graph. 1. Draw your x axis. Draw your y axis. 2. Label the x axis YEARS. 3. Label your y axis POPULATION IN

THOUSANDS. 4. Think about a number scale you can

use for the y axis. 5. Fill in the numbers on the y axis. 6. Write a title on the top of your graph. 7. Use the information on the next slide to

finish your graph.

X Axis-years Y Axis-population

1492 – 1,000,000

1496 – 950,000

1507 – 60,000 1508 – 30,000

1518 – 3,000

1530 – 1148 1542 - >500