SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Question
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Each ship traveled all three sides of the triangle formed between the American colonies, Africa, and Great Britain.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Rum and manufactured goods taken by New World merchants to Africa were sold in exchange for enslaved people. These slaves were taken to the New World and sold.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The triangle, involving three continents, was complete. European capital, African labour and American land and resources combined to supply a European market.
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