Triangular Trade

The portion of triangular trade that brought slaves across the atlantic was called

• trail of tears
• The death trail
• The final passage
• the Middle passage

Slaves were brought to the New World to work on _________

• Plantations
• Factories
• building ships
• becoming traders

Mercantilism was ________.

• taking resources to the colonies to sell
• Trading with the french and Spanish
• Had nothing to do with trade
• Taking resources from the colonies to make money

What type of goods did Europeans trade TO Africans in exchange FOR slaves?

• Manufactured goods (tools, guns, cloth)

• Agricultural products (wheat, corn, beef)

• Luxury goods (silk, spices, jewelry)

• Raw materials (cotton, iron ore, beaver furs)

What crop grown on Caribbean islands required many laborers, prompting Europeans to import African slaves to work?

• Sugar

• Tobacco

• Cotton

• Wheat

How did European merchants obtain slaves in Africa?

• Europeans bought the slave from African merchants who had captured them by raiding other villages.

• Europeans journeyed far inland & captured Africans using their guns & swords.

• Europeans used tricks & deception to make African people board the ships.

Approximately how many African people were enslaved & taken by Europeans on the Middle Passage?

• 12 million

• 50,000

• 1.5-2 million

• about 500,000

What was the main commodity from the America's to England?

• tobacco, sugar, cotton

• sugar, rum, slaves

• slaves, gun, gold

• cotton, coffee, iron

What was the main commodities bought to Africa on the first passage of the triangular trade?

• lace, satin, guns

• guns, ammunition, slaves

• rum, bananas, ammunition

• Cloth, guns, ammunition

What was the route of the Triangle Trade Route?

• England to Africa, Africa to the Americas, the Americas back to England.

• China to North America, North America to India, India back to China.

• England to South America, South America to China, China back to England.

• South America to England, England to India, India back to South America.