All Around the World

The map my group created shows the Transatlantic trade. The Transatlantic trade is the trade that took place across the Atlantic ocean linking Europe, Africa and the Americas for about 4 centuries. Lots of slaves, food and raw materials were sent using this trade route.
This is the map we created

 

In North America, there were three main colonies responsible for trading. Boston, Philadelphia and New York. They probably had the most people and goods to export. Food items were the main export for most places meaning that people were most likely interested in new food from North America. There were raw materials being traded from America to England and then finished items such as furniture and. This is an example of mercantilism where England is the mother country and America is the colony.

The Truth About the Things You Buy

In my groups public service announcement we made it about industries involved with slavery. We created it to show that even though people don't think they are involved with slavery the clothes they are wearing or the toys they are playing with could be related to slavery. If people know just how much slavery is affecting them they'd be able to stop it by not buying the products made by slave labor and just being more aware that it is still out there in the world and not just something that got abolished more than a thousand years ago.
Here you can watch the project made by my group about slaveries involved with slavery. http://youtu.be/LXs-SKUI0N8
With this link you can check out all the public service announcements about slavery made by our class http://endingmoderndayslaveryatrmhs.wikispaces.com/Home