What is the significance of the triangular trade?

Answer 1

As a general term, triangular trade is a system involving goods from three locations, each of which has a demand in one of the others. Goods from location 1 are transported to location 2, where they are traded for local goods; the goods from location 2 are transported to location 3, where they are traded for local goods; then the goods from location 3 are transported to location 1, where they are traded for local goods. The trade goes on and on, to the benefit of the traders, the shippers, and, hopefully, the people in the locations involved.

As a specific term, the Triangular Trade was a system in which African slaves were traded for agricultural produce, which was traded for New World manufactured goods, which was traded for European manufactured goods, which was traded for slaves.

Typically, the slaves were taken by ship from Africa to the Caribbean, where they were traded for molasses. This was taken to New England and traded for rum and ironware. These were taken to Britain and traded for weapons, beads, copper, cloth, and whatever else traders though might appeal to people who sold slaves in Africa. And these were traded for more slaves.
A trade thourgh North America, Afirca and Europe. If you draw it on a map it makes a triangle. This trade was made when Columbus found North America. They got slaves from Africa, livestock and corn from Europe, and North America had new fruits and veggis, the cocoa bean, and other unknown crops at the time.

Answer 2

The "Triangular Trade" was a trading triangle that went between England, West Africa, and the New England Colonies. The English first went to West Africa to trade English goods for African Slaves. Then they went to the New England colonies to trade the slaves for cash crops. This is the triangular trade.

Triangular trade was important to all three parts of the "Triangle". It was important to England because they got much needed cash crops from the colonies. These crops helped England because colonists had better farming tecniques than the English and they were hard workers.

The triangular trade also benefited West Africa. The English traded goods for slaves, which was valuble to them. The English goods were not only useful, but also had good exchange value. Though what they were doing was unethical, it helped the economy.

This trading lastly benefited the New England colonies. The New England colonies used slaves to get farm work and house work done more quickly. The slave trade gave the colonies more help to make cash crops, which they sold to England for more slaves, and on and on like that.

Answer 3

As the colonial economy grew, cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston became thriving trading centers. An important part of colonial trade was the slave trade. In this type of trade, ships brought captive Africans to the colonies, where they were sold and the forced to work as slaves. Some trade routes became known as triangular trade routes. These routes were called "triangular" because they were shaped like giant triangles.

Answer 4

European ships sailed from Europe to Africa carrying goods to be used in trade for slaves, the ships then sailed to the Americas with the slaves, the slaves where sold and produce from the plantations was brought back to Europe

Answer 5

In the 1560's, Sir John Hawkins pioneered the way for the slave triangle that would take place between England, Africa, and North America.

Rum to Africa which bought slaves. Slaves to the West Indies. Slaves made molasses (from sugar cane). Molasses to New England which made rum from it. Etc, etc. etc.

While the origins of the slave trade from Africa can be traced back to days of the Roman Empire, Hawkins voyages were the first for England.

The country would see slave trade flourish through more than 10,000 recorded voyages up through March 1807 when the British Parliament abolished it throughout the British Empire and specifically across the Atlantic with the passage of the Slave Trade Act.