Triangle Trade
What three areas were involved with the triangle trade?
Europe, Africa, and the Americas
The slave trade along the Triangular trade routes was called the ________ slave trade
Transatlantic
What was the estimated number of slaves transported during this time.
10-12 million
British colonists could only trade with
England
What material was produced in the middle colonies?
Grain
The long term goal of this trade was to make the home country or mother country____________
wealthy
What part of Africa did this slave trade take place?
West Central Africa
How were the slaves captured and sold.
Europeans traded goods to local African tribes in exchange for slaves.
What goods did Great Britain, Africa and the Americas trade.
Britain- finished goods
Africa- enslaved labor
The Americas- raw materials
This system suggested that a nations power relied on the fair balance of trade.
Mercantilism
The dangerous trip slaves took on the ships was called?
The middle passage
What were three of the six nations or regions involved with this particular slave trade.
Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, The Netherlands , France and The Americas.
What important raw material did the Caribbean Islands produced?
Sugar
A country that had a successful trade system ______________ more than ____________
Exported more than imported
This slave trade took place between what years?
1500-1800s
What was the Percentage of slaves that came to the American colonies?
4 to 5%
Caribbean and Brazil about 95%
What materials did the New England colonies contribute?
Lumber, fish, furs
Where did the term slavery come from?
It came from eastern Europe where Slavic people were often slaves in the Medieval period.
A successful Home country tried to acquire these for new materials and markets.
Colonies
What was the name that was given to this slave trade?
Gun- slave cycle
Who was the last country to ban slavery in the western hemisphere?
Brazil 1888
What cash crops did the Carolinas and the Chesapeake produce?
Indigo, rice, tobacco
The last country to outlaw Slavery was Mauritania. What year ?
1981. No penalties until 2007