1. Triangular Trade and the Navigation Acts

2. Settlers in Colonial America engaged in 3 types of trade
Triangular Trade
Settlers in Colonial America engaged in 3 types of trade
Trade with other colonies
Direct exchange of goods with Europe
The Triangular Trade

3. Triangular Trade
Triangular Trade
The name given to a route with three stops.
The American colonists were a part of the triangular trade routes with Europe and Africa

4. NEED FOR LABOUR
Because so many native people in South and North America had died from overwork, malnutrition, and European diseases, the Europeans brought Africans to the New World and forced them to work as slaves.

5. WHY AFRICANS?
African rulers justified the sale of slaves through their Muslim beliefs.
Between the years 650 and 1600, black and white Muslims transported 4.8 million African to Muslim lands in SW Asia.
In African and Muslim societies, slaves had rights and the opportunity for social mobility.
Slavery in African and Muslim societies was NOT hereditary.

6. WHY AFRICANS? There were several advantages in using Africans:
They had been exposed to European diseases
They had experience in farming
They had little knowledge of the land and there were no familiar tribes

7. Triangular Trade
Ships would leave the colonies with raw materials and rum bound for England
They would leave England and take money from sale of goods, rum, and iron to Africa to trade for slaves
Ships would bring Slaves from Africa to the West Indies
They would take remaining slaves, sugar and molasses to the Colonies

10. The Colonies prospered from trade
Navigation Acts
The Colonies prospered from trade
England wanted to ensure that it prospered as well
This was called Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
All Shipping had to be done on English Ships
Cash crops could only be sold in English Colonies
Colonial Imports had to pass through English ports
Any colonial goods not shipped to England were to be taxed

11. England had trouble enforcing the Navigation Acts
Smuggling
England had trouble enforcing the Navigation Acts
Merchants ignored them whenever they could
Smuggling was very common
England had particular difficulty preventing pirates from interfering with trade