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]
What ocean was used for Triangular Trade?
A
The Caribbean
B
The Pacific
C
The Atlantic
D
The Indian
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -During the colonial era, Britain and its colonies engaged in a “triangular trade, ” shipping natural resources, goods, and people across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to enrich the mother country.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Triangular Trade network originated in the home country of Great Britain. Ships would sail south to Africa, then across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean or New England. The triangle would be completed by returning to Great Britain from either of these locations.

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.

Detailed explanation-5: -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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