SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Rum, Slaves, sugar and molasses
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slaves, cotton, and sugar
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rice, indigo, and iron ore
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slaves, rum, and livestock
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Detailed explanation-1: -early merchants prospered in the triangular trade of rum, molasses, and slaves between New England, Africa, and the West Indies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Molasses was important in triangular trade. In the triangular trade, slave traders from New England would bring rum to Africa, and in return, they would purchase enslaved Africans. The enslaved cargo was then brought to the West Indies and sold to sugarcane plantations to harvest the sugar for molasses.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is called the Triangle Trade because the routes the ships took – between Rhode Island, Africa, and the West Indies-formed a triangle. A ship might begin in Rhode Island with a cargo of rum. From Rhode Island it sailed to the coast of Africa where its cargo of rum was traded for captured Africans.
Detailed explanation-4: -The triangle, involving three continents, was complete. European capital, African labour and American land and resources combined to supply a European market.