History Unit Test Part: 5 (Triangular Trade)

What is the Triangular trade?

A term that describes the trade routes of three different destinations during Colonial times: Europe, Africa, and the Americas (including the West Indies). Manufactured goods are shipped from Europe to West Africa to buy enslaved people. Enslaved people are taken to the Americas to grow sugar and other raw materials. Those raw materials are then shipped to Europe where they are manufactured for re-export to Africa to buy enslaved people.

What Continents were involved in the Triangular trade?

Americas, Europe, Africa

What products were being traded?

Raw materials, Manufactured goods, and Enslaved people

Define Raw Materials - Give 2-3 examples

The basic, unfinished material used to make a product that is later sold. Cotton, lumber, gold, iron.

Define manufactured goods - Give 2-3 examples

Products made from raw materials for sale to others, also known as finished goods. Cloth, rum, furniture.