1. MERCANTILISM & THE TRIANGULAR TRADE

2. TRADE ROUTES

3.                                                  
Mercantilism
Mercantilism: An economic relationship between a country (ex. England) and its colonies.
Goal
Sell more (export) than what you buy (import)

4. WHAT IS MERCANTILISM?
An economic relationship between the mother country (England) and its colonies. The colonies produce cheap raw materials and ship them to the mother country. The mother country uses the raw materials to make manufactured goods. The colonies are expected to buy the manufactured goods.

5. Mercantilism Colony Country
Countries created colonies (settlement of people)
Colonies worked for the country
Expensive
manufactured goods
Cheap raw (natural) materials
Colony
Country

6. Examples of Mercantilism
Raw materials
Manufactured goods

7. Mercantilism
Manufactured
Goods
Raw materials

8. Which of the following is an example of a raw material?
Cigarettes
Clothing
Shoes
Cotton

9. Which of the following is an example of a manufactured good?
Furniture
Tobacco
Rice
Fish

10. Navigation Laws (1660)
Trade laws passed by England to control trade with the colonies
1. Required the 13 colonies to trade
mainly with England
2. Required the use of ships made in
England or the colonies
3. Forbade colonial manufactures that competed with England’s
4. Required tax stops in England when
trading with other nations

11. Enforcing the Navigation Laws
England failed to enforce the navigation laws for about 100 years
The laws were not enforced until 1763
The colonies had been “neglected” (salutary neglect); they were left alone and they developed the Triangular Trade

12. Triangular Trade
Sugar
Guns, and iron tools
Middle Passage

13. The Triangular Trade Done to make profit North America 13 Colonies
Rum, guns, and
tools
Africa
Sugar
and
molasses
West Indies
Slaves
(Middle Passage)
Done to make profit

14. A LOOK AT SLAVERY

15. WHAT WAS THE MIDDLE PASSAGE?
IT WAS THE TERM GIVEN TO THE TRADE ROUTE FROM WEST AFRICA TO THE AMERICAS
IT DESCRIBES THE EXPERIENCES OF THE SLAVES ABOARD THE SLAVES SHIPS

16. SLAVE SHIP

17. HOW WERE SLAVES TREATED?
SLAVES WERE PACKED IN THE SHIPS LIKE SARDINES
THEIR HANDS AND FEET WERE TIED

18. LOADING PLAN OF A SLAVE SHIP

21. SLAVES WERE BOUGHT IN AUCTIONS TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER
HOW WERE SLAVES BOUGHT?
SLAVES WERE BOUGHT IN AUCTIONS TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER

22. SLAVES ON DECK

23. SLAVES FOUGHT BACK

24. Which of the following statements is true regarding the Triangular Trade?
Colonies send slaves to Africa
West Indies sends rum to Africa
Colonies send rum to Africa for slaves
Africa sends rum to the West Indies