STANDARD WHII.4e, f
Triangular Trade
Objectives
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the impact of the European
Age of Discovery and expansion into the Americas, Africa, and Asia by
e) mapping and explaining the triangular trade;
f) describing the impact of precious metal exports from the
Americas.
Essential Understandings
The European nations established a trade pattern known as the triangular
trade and exported precious metals from the Americas.
Essential Questions
What was the triangular trade?
What was the impact of precious metal exports from the Americas
Essential Knowledge
The triangular trade linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Slaves,
sugar, and rum were traded.
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Export of precious metals
Gold and silver exported to Europe and Asia
Impact on indigenous empires of the Americas
Impact on Spain and international trade
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Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer. (4 points each)
1. What did ships transport on the "middle passage"?
A. coins, enslaved Africans, and sugar
B. gold and enslaved Africans
C. rum, trade goods, and currency
D. sugar, molasses, and enslaved Africans
2. Which places were part of all three triangular trade routes?
A. England
B. West Indies and southern colonies
C. New England, New York, and Philadelphia
D. Africa
3. What did England export?
A. salt, fruit, and wines
B. sugar, molasses, and fruit
C. bills of exchange
D. manufactured goods
4. What did the West Indies export both to England and to New England, New York, and Philadelphia?
A. sugar and molasses
B. coins and enslaved Africans
C. fruit and bills of exchange
D. sugar, coins, molasses, and enslaved Africans
5. What did New England, Philadelphia, and New York export to both the West Indies and Spain,
Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira Islands?
A. cattle and grain
B. lumber and cattle
C. fish, lumber, and grain
D. fish and cattle
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6. According to the charts, from where did New England, New York, and Philadelphia import
enslaved Africans?
A. West Indies
B. southern colonies and Africa
C. Africa
D. West Indies and southern colonies
7. Where were sugar plantations located?
A. West Indies
B. Africa
C. Spain, Portugal, the Azores, Madeira Islands
D. New England, New York, Philadelphia
8. According to the charts, what did New England, New York, and Philadelphia primarily export?
A. manufactured goods
B. raw materials
C. natural resources
D. crops and fish
9. How might the "middle passage" have gotten its name?
A. It traveled through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
B. It traveled in between, or in the middle of, all the continents.
C. It was the second part, or middle part, of the triangular trade.
D. The enslaved Africans traveled in the middle of the ship.
10. What conclusion about manufacturing can be drawn from the charts?
A. The southern colonies did all the manufacturing, which is why they needed enslaved
persons.
B. England did the manufacturing while other places supplied raw materials.
C. New England, Philadelphia, and New York imported raw materials to make
manufactured goods.
D. The West Indies and Africa sent enslaved persons to England to make manufactured
goods. Using the exhibit, answer the following questions. (4 points each)
11. According to the charts, how did New England, Philadelphia, and New York trade for enslaved
Africans?
12. According to the charts, what role did England play in the triangular trade?
13. Other than being part of the triangular trade, how were enslaved Africans essential to the
triangular trade?
14. What became of the gold transported from Africa?
15. Why was the system called the triangular trade?
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