The Triangular Trade

Question 1

What was Stage One of the triangular trade?

Answer 1

British Ports
British goods loaded onto ships and taken to Africa

e.g - copper pots pans, cloth for clothing, guns

Question 2

What was Stage Two of the triangular trade?

Answer 2

West Coast Of Africa
British goods exchanged for African slaves from slave factories. Slaves taken to Caribbean tightly packed

Question 3

What was Stage Three of the triangular trade?

Answer 3

Caribbean
Slaves sold at auctions and work on plantations.

Plantation goods - sugar, rum, tobacco, cotten

Taken to Britain to be sold for a profit.

Question 4

Stage 4

Answer 4

They had made profit at every point of the triangle.

Repeated with hundreds of ships.