VOCAB

Triangular Trade

Abolitionist, admiralty courts, bond, custom officers, duty, export, import, indigo.

Money that must be put up in advance as a guarantee.

A person who worked to end slavery and the slave trade.

Officials who collected duties or taxes on trading goods.

A product brought into a country for sale.Special courts that were set up by the British

to enforce the Navigation Acts.A blue dye obtained from plants.A product grown or manufactured in one

country and sold to another country.A tax paid on goods brought into a country.

Manufactured goods, Mercantilism, Middle Passage, molasses, naval stores, Navigation Acts, smuggle,

writs of assistance.

Atlantic slave trade.Special search warrants issued by the British government

that allowed officials to search for smuggled goods without restrictions.

To illegally take goods into or out of a country in order to avoid paying a duty.

Products made from raw materials by hand or machinery.A thick syrup separated from sugar cane in the making of

sugar.An economic system in which nations increase their wealth

and power by establishing a favorable balance of trade.A series of laws passed by Parliament, beginning in 1651, to

ensure that England made money from its colonies’ trade.Tar obtained from pine trees that was used to caulk seams of

wooden ships to prevent leaks and timber used in building wooden sailing ships.

FIND AND LABEL THESE AREAS &

COUNTRIES :

• NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES

• WEST INDIES• JAMAICA

• BARBADOS• BAHAMAS• ENGLAND• PORTUGAL

• WEST AFRICA• SENEGAL

Map InstructionsF IN D A N D LA BEL THE

C IT IES LOCAT ED AT THESE

LATITUD E/LON GITUDE COORDIN AT ES :

• 42 N, 71 .5 W• 32 .5 N, 80 W• 42 N, 71 .4 W• 41 N, 74 W

• 39 .5 N, 75 W• 13 N, 59 W• 51 N, 2 W

• 18 N, 76 .5 W• 25 N, 77 W• 38 N, 9 W• 14 N, 17 W

Providence

Providence

LondonLondon to

= Draw a “Eastern Seaboard” Chance Card

= Draw a “Mid-Atlantic” Chance Card

= Draw a “West Indies” Chance Card

Triangular Trade: Questions

1. What were some advantages and disadvantages of your particular group? (New England Colonies, West Indies, etc.)

2. Which group do you think was the most disadvantaged?3. Which group do you think had the most advantages?4. Explain what the Navigation Acts were and why they were

set up. (One paragraph)5. What were the risks of illegal trading?6. Would you be willing to take the risk?7. What measures do you think the English Admiralty Courts

would take to punish smugglers?8. Sum up the Triangular Trade in at least one paragraph.

Discuss: The different areas that traded What those areas traded Any issues or rules

a. Name this area and what was traded here.

b. Name this area and what was traded here.c. Name this area and what was traded here.

9.

a. Name this area and what was traded here.

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11. Explain why this route was illegal.