Title: Social Studies Chapter 8 Flashcards | Quizlet
Headings: Social Studies Chapter 8
Social Studies Chapter 8
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7. The Johnson Years

Content: Triangular trade
As more English settlers arrived, Native American communities...
They decreased in population. Describe slavery in West Africa in the 1500s. Slaves were allowed to own land and make a living and were not treated poorly. Why did European traders come to West Africa? What did they do? As one village grew in power, its neighboring villages were often forced to sell slaves to Europeans in exchange for weapons to protect themselves. Soon, groups all over West Africa were capturing and enslaving people to trade for guns. List at least three ways in which Africans responded to European slave traders. One way Africans responded to European slave traders is that a few West Africans refused to take part in the slave trade, but it was hard to resist the Europeans. Second way is that other West Africans tried to find slaves outside their own nations.