Triangular Trade System
Directions: Use the reading to answer the following questions in complete
sentences by restating the question in your answer.
1. Copy the definition below.
Triangular Trade System - a trading system during colonial times when goods
were imported and exported among three geographic regions across the
Atlantic Ocean.
2. Name three reasons why Native Americans did not make good slaves?
3. What were four reasons why Africans made good slaves?
4. Write a detailed social studies definition of the middle passage?
5. Write 5 adjectives that describe the middle passage from the point of view
of a slave. (Your answer should be five one-word adjectives ie. soft)
Triangular Trade Map
1. Use page 84 of the North Carolina text to label the following on the map.
North America
Central America
West Indies
Atlantic Ocean
Great Britain (England) Africa
South America
Europe
Label the arrow that represents the MIDDLE PASSAGE.
(use the definition from the previous page)
2. Lightly shade all of the water blue with a colored pencil
3. Use a highlighter to shade in the 13 colonies