Question

Refer to the two maps

What drove the significant change in the slave trade between 1450 and 1750?

European societies stopped the practice of exiling prisoners to their colonial territories.
Competition from agricultural communities of indigenous people increased colonial plantation owners’ demand for enslaved laborers.
It was less profitable for colonial plantation owners to use indentured servants to grow cash crops.
Triangular trade encouraged a direct and profitable exchange between North America and Africa, in which enslaved people were traded for agricultural goods.

Answer 1

You didn’t provide a map but it would probably be the last one. Enslaved Africans became apart of an Atlantic trading system where Europeans would usually sail to West Africa with goods and from there transport enslaved Africans to the Americas and take goods from there such as sugar and tobacco to bring back to Europe. This was called triangular trade because it usually had three segments.

Answer 2

B - Competition from agricultural communities of indigenous people increased colonial plantation owners’ demand for enslaved laborers.