Triangular Trade Vocabulary

A term for the trade routes of Europe, Africa, and the Americas during Colonial times.

• manufactured goods

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• cash crops

Finished products made from raw materials.

• raw materials

• cash crops

• manufactured goods

• plantations

The basic, unfinished material used to make a product that is later sold.

• cash crops

• manufactured goods

• finished goods

• raw materials

Being made to work as a slave, forced to work without pay and treated like property.

• slave ports

• enslaved

• Triangular trade

• plantation

The part of the Triangular Trade route during which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas.

• Middle Passage

• slave ports

• Triangular Trade

• plantation

Agricultural crops grown in large quantities and sold for profit, for example: tobacco, sugar, rice, and cotton

• manufactured goods

• cash crops

• plantation

• finished goods

A large estate or farm that often used enslaved people to grow and harvest crops.

• slave port

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

• plantation

Where European ships came to load enslaved Africans to be sold in the Americas and Caribbean.

• slave ports

• enslaved

• Triangular trade

• plantation