Triangle Trade / Mercantilism

Goods sold to other countries

• export

• import

• mercantilism

• triangle trade

Goods brought in from other countries

• export

• import

• mercantilism

• triangle trade

A person who makes money by selling goods.

• commerce

• merchant

• charter

• joint stock company

A system in which the king tried to increase his nation's wealth by having colonies only trade with the mother country.

• triangular trade

• cash crop

• joint stock company

• mercantilsim

3 sided trade route between the 13 Colonies, the West Indies, and Africa; included the slave trade

• mercantilism

• charter

• triangular trade

• cash crop

The impact of mercantilism was that

• The rate of slavery in the Americas went down

• Trade was limited in the Atlantic

• The Colony grew wealthy

• The Mother Country grew wealthy

Based on the political cartoon, how does mercantilism benefit the mother country?

• The mother country always has something to eat.
• The mother country can get rich from the colonies.
• The colonies provide everything to the mother country.

What ocean was crossed on the Triangular trade routes?

• The Caribbean
• The Indian
• The Atlantic
• The Pacific