Definition:
A pattern of shipping or trade in
the shape of a triangle between
England, the Colonies, and Africa
for trading raw materials,
manufactured goods, and slaves.
Key Ideas:
• England gets raw materials from
colonies – things not available in
England
• Colonies get English
manufactured goods
• Colonies get slave labor
Triangular Trade
Examples:
New England sends
Rum, and lumber to England
England sends furniture to Africa
Africa sends slaves to the Colonies
Illustration:
Definition:
Key Ideas:
The colonies exist in order to serve • King gets rich off of colonial
the economic interests of the
resources
Mother Country [England].
• Colonial trade regulated and
England benefits while the Colonies
controlled by England
Suffer.
• England employment rises - more
manufacturing jobs
Mercantilism
Examples:
Colonies export their
raw materials to England, England
manufactures goods using the raw
materials, England sells their
manufactured goods back to the
Colonies for profit [$$],
Colonies cannot trade with anyone
but England – Controlled trade
Illustration:
Sugar and
Molasses
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Thin rocky soil, cold
Good soil, fertile valleys,
harsh winters,
smooth rolling hills,
Subsistence farming, longer growing season,
Survived by fishing,
small to med. size
Shipping, trade, fur,
Farms – grew grain,
Lumber, rum
Wheat barley and Native
Could not farm b/c of Vegetables.
Climate, geography
Few slaves needed if Few, if any needed,
Some could farm, work
any, most worked in
In the home.
the home, cooking
cleaning, taking care of
children
Tidewater – swampy coast,
Piedmont – flat plain, forests,
Highlands – mountains, Hot,
humid climate, plentiful
rainfall, long growing season
Plantation farms, cash crops
Tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar
Most blacks were
Free blacks, allowed to
Own their own land,
Some worked as
Apprentices for local
Businesses, some
Could read/write, were
educated
Large number of slaves, out
numbered white population,
Slaves for life, had no rights,
Were owners property, were
Bought, sold, traded away
From their families, worked
From sun up to sun down and
Beyond, treated the same as
Livestock.
Some blacks were free,
Some not, Many
Quakers would become
Abolitionists [outspoken
against slavery],
Abolitionist movement
Would start here.
High slave usage due to the
Plantation system – slaves
Needed to plant, harvest
Cash crops, most worked
in the fields, few in homes.
Navigation Acts
• Prohibited the colonies from trading with other countries.
• but England didn’t enforce law much
• lots of American smuggling
Arrrggghhh!!!
Well shiver me timbers, it’s
time for the closing
task!!
Really…..
what was the point?
Write one sentence
explaining what you
think the point of the
lesson was.