USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did Europeans benefit from the Triangular Trade?
A
Europeans benefitted from slave labor to make manufactured goods that would later be for sale.
B
Europeans benefitted from the raw materials that were exported from America to create manufactured goods that would later be for sale.
C
Europeans benefitted from the trade of their raw materials for the manufactured goods of America.
D
Europeans did not directly benefit from the Triangular Trade.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Triangular trade benefited European nations because it opened new markets for their own goods while also enabling them to obtain trade commodities that could be exchanged for goods produced in the West Indies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The side that benefitted most from the Triangular Trade routes was Europe. Traveling to the western coast of Africa, European traders exchanged European weapons for slaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Europeans, on the other hand, greatly benefited from the Atlantic trade, since it allowed them to amass the raw materials that fed the Industrial Revolution to the detriment of African societies whose capacity to transform their modes of production into a viable entrepreneurial economy was severely halted.

Detailed explanation-4: -three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.

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