 1.
Vote for Homecoming. Circle ONLY
one girl and one boy
 2. Have money and permission slips out
for Ms. Brown.
 3. Finish writing prompt from Monday
On page 7 of your writer’s notebook, respond to the following prompt:
What different things can impact the price (what you can buy) of
currency?
Use 3 specific examples from your notes, highlight them both in
your notes, and your writer’s notebook.
Mr. Gilson Social Studies Class
7th grade
 1.
What is Triangle Trade?
 2. Who was involved in Triangle Trade?
 3. How is Triangle Trade connected to
slavery?
 4. What was the Middle Passage, and
what was it like?
 5. How does Triangle trade connect with
economics?
 Triangle
trade refers to the trade of a
merchant between multiple ports on one
trip.
 It
was a way to maximize profits and
avoid having an empty cargo hold
 Triangle
trade most often refers to the
trade between Europe, Africa, and the
American colonies of all European
powers.
 Goods
exchanged included
Furs, Rum, Fish, Weapons,
Tobacco, Rice, Cotton,
Sugar, Molasses, Clothing,
Books, and others.
 Slaves
were also a part of
the triangle trade.
 The
Atlantic slave trade existed primarily
between 1600 and 1850.
 Most
slaves were
taken to South
America and the
Caribbean Islands.
 The
trip to the New World was called the
Middle Passage
 Conditions
in
slave ships
were terrible.
 Alexander
Source
Falcolnbridge—Primary
 Triangle
trade raised the standard of
living for all people engaged, since it
brought new products to the market that
you couldn’t buy.
Country/Region
Europe
Africa
South/Central America
North America (British
Colonies)
Demands (wants)
Supplies (sells)
 Primary
items demanded by Europe:
gold, ivory, furs, tobacco, rice, cotton,
sugar, molasses
 Primary
items supplied by Europe:
manufactured goods, luxuries, guns,
clothes
 Primary
items demanded by Africa:
Guns, clothes, iron
 Primary
items supplied by Africa: gold,
ivory, slaves
 Primary
items demanded by S./Central
America: slaves, fish, livestock
 Primary
items supplied by S./Central
America: sugar, molasses,
 Primary
items demanded by North
America: slaves, sugar, manufactured
goods, luxuries
 Primary
items supplied by North
America: rice, tobacco, cotton, fish,
livestock, rum, iron
 North
America was divided into 13
British Colonies.
 Colonies
were only allowed to trade with
the mother country
 http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/683
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 http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id
=818475
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_tra
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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco
 http://www.business-strategyinnovation.com/2008/06/decreasingstandard-of-living.html
 http://khnaveed.wordpress.com/2011/01/1
2/ways-to-measure-your-standard-of-living/