USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mercantilism led to the emergence of what’s been called the “triangular trade”: a system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials, and Africa supplied the Americas with enslaved laborers.

Detailed explanation-2: -…large and profitable system of triangular trade involved foodstuffs and wood products, such as lumber and barrel staves, that went from Philadelphia to the West Indies and there were exchanged for sugar, rum, and other West Indian products.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ships were then prepared to get them thoroughly cleaned, drained, and loaded with export goods for a return voyage, the third leg, to their home port, from the West Indies the main export cargoes were sugar, rum, and molasses; from Virginia, tobacco and hemp.

Detailed explanation-4: -Usually, spices from Africa and sometimes goods from the Caribbean continued on to England on the last leg of the Triangular Trade, along with American items, including: Tobacco. Cotton. Iron.

Detailed explanation-5: -The triangular trade was the three-legged route that made up the Atlantic slave trade. The trade traffic flowed to and from three general areas on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. These areas form a rough triangle when viewed on a map. They were in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.