Triangular Trade and the Navigation Acts

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Triangular Trade and the Navigation Acts
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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

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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

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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 (This was called the Middle Passage)
• They would take remaining slaves, sugar and
  molasses to the Colonies

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Navigation Acts - 1651

• The Colonies prospered from trade
• England wanted to ensure that it prospered as
  well
• Mercantilism
• Navigation Acts
• All Shipping had to be done on English Ships
• Cash crops could only be sold in English Colonies
  or England
• Any colonial goods not shipped to England were to
  be taxed

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Smuggling

• Smuggling-illegally buying and selling goods
• 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