Triangular Trade

Question 1

What food was so important in creating the Atlantic slave trade?

Answer 1

sugar

Question 2

What were the three points on the Triangular trade?

Answer 2

Britain, West Africa, West Indies/Americas/Caribbean

Question 3

Which European led the expedition to the Americas that “discovered” sugar?

Answer 3

Christopher Columbus

Question 4

What was Columbus looking for when he “discovered” America?

Answer 4

A route to India and China avoiding the Middle East.

Question 5

What is the plant that sugar comes from called?

Answer 5

Sugar cane

Question 6

Why were West Africans enslaved to work in the sugar business?

Answer 6

Caribbean natives died out and Europeans didn’t want to do the work or died in the harsh conditions.

Question 7

What was shipped from Britain to West Africa?

Answer 7

Guns, Cloth, Alcohol

Question 8

What was shipped from West Africa to the Caribbean?

Answer 8

Enslaved Africans

Question 9

What was shipped from the Caribbean to Britain?

Answer 9

Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar

Question 10

What was the journey from West Africa to the Caribbean called?

Answer 10

The Middle Passage