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Economic Activities in the Colonies: Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, and Cash Crops

This chapter explores the economic landscape of the American colonies, focusing on key facets such as the Triangular Trade, the Middle Passage, and the cultivation of cash crops. We will describe the goods imported from and exported to various regions, including West Africa and the West Indies. The chapter highlights the grim realities of the Middle Passage, where enslaved Africans were forcibly transported. Additionally, we will examine the role of plantations in colonial economy and the types of crops produced for profit.

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Economic Activities in the Colonies: Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, and Cash Crops

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  1. Life in the Colonies Chapter 4 Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Cash Crops, Slavery, and Imports/Exports

  2. We will… • Describe the economic activities of the colonies • Identify goods for import and export • Demonstrate the process of the Triangular Trade

  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpA5O46Ioyk • Thirteen Colonies

  4. Vocabulary • Burgesses • Elected representatives to an assembly • Cash Crop • Farm crop raised to be sold for money • Export • To sell goods abroad • Think Exit the country • Import • To buy goods from foreign markets • Bring in from other countries • Plantation • A large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers who lived there (or slaves)

  5. What is the Triangular Trade? • A trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa

  6. Triangular Trade • Goods exported from America (Colonies) • Rice, Tobacco, Indigo, Furs, Whale Oil • Rum, Iron, Tools • Most Goods were shipped out of northern Coastal Cities • Goods Imported from Africa and West Indies • Slaves, Gold, Pepper • Molasses • Goods traded between West Indies, Britain, and Africa • Cloth, Sugar, Iron, Weapons, Molasses, Slaves

  7. Middle Passage • Middle Passage • The shipping of Africans to the West Indies • They were then shipped to the American Colonies to be sold. • Slaves were packed into ships, many died on the voyage • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1BYZRn4Lgc

  8. African Slave Trade 1450 - 1870

  9. Southern Colonies • Warm Climate • Rich Soil • Farming • Tobacco • Rice • Indigo • Cotton • Cash Crop – • Main cash crop in Georgia and South Carolina was Rice • Main Cash Crop in Virginia and North Carolina is Tobacco • Slaves provided the labor • How much does slave labor cost?

  10. Plantations • A large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers who lived there (or slaves) • Large plantations had “overseer” to take care of the slaves… • Slave Boss • What does a plantation look like?

  11. Import vs. Export • Imports are goods coming in • Goods we are buying • Imported Goods Cost Money • Goods we can’t produce • Exports are goods exiting • Goods we are selling • Exported Goods Earn Money • Goods we have more than we need to use

  12. French and Indian War • Causes • Effect • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yer7OfHyynU

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