Triangular Trade

Question 1

Effects on Britain

Answer 1

-banking and insurance companies
-world leading sea power
-British merchants became very rich
-provided work
-growth of ports
-imported valuable products

Question 2

Effects on ports

Answer 2

-important centre of ship building
-lead to growth
-large increase in town’s population
-Liverpool one of the largest ports
-brought lots of money to towns
-thousands were employed

Question 3

Effects on African societies

Answer 3

-increase famine no young men to grow crops
-lost large numbers of people
-less powerful societies were destroyed
-increase in war/raids/kidnappings
-some states grew powerful and wealthy
-displacement of population

Question 4

Effects on the Caribbean

Answer 4

-deep divide
-destroyed natural beauty
-destruction of Nate people
-damage to economy (focus on sugar production)
-cant be self sufficient
-destruction of culture
-lots died because of European diseases

Question 5

Slave factories

Answer 5

-put in punishment cells for bad behaviour
-kept for months
-held captive
-branded on the chest after passed as fit
-kept chained up
-separated by gender
-walked fro many days to reach
-many Europeans died due to tropical diseases
-slaves were bought
-examined by doctors

Question 6

Conditions on the middle passage

Answer 6

-unsanitary
-cramped
-food
-mistreatment
-sickness
-forced to dance

Question 7

Cramped

Answer 7

-tight packing
-loose packing
-can’t stand up

Question 8

Food

Answer 8

-European so couldn’t digest
-force fed
-sick

Question 9

Mistreatment

Answer 9

-whipping
-abused, violent

Question 10

Sickness

Answer 10

-spread fast
-thrown overboard

Question 11

Forced to dance

Answer 11

-entertainment
-embarrassing