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Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Triangular Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on triangular trade in Colonial America explores routes (England to Africa to the Americas and back to England), the exchange of goods, and Slave Trade. A chart shows the goods traded by the Thirteen Colonies.
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BBC

Bbc: The Triangular Trade

For Students 5th - 7th
Approximately 6 million Africans were taken as slaves to the Americas. Follow the steps of the Triangular Slave Trade with an accompanying map. The map shows which goods and services were traded between the countries.
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University of Calgary

The Sugar & Slave Trades

For Students 9th - 10th
Examines each aspect of the triangle trade. Provides images and information about the Slave trade.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Slave Trade's Significance

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the significance of the slave trade in the colonial economy as well as in Europe. See why the slave trade stimulated manufacturing and resulted in the transatlantic triangular trade.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Slave Trade [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read Olaudah Equiano's account of being captured in his village in Africa, and placed on a slave ship to be taken to America. He describes the middle passage of the triangular trade route, as well as the leg from Europe to Africa. [pdf]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Transatlantic Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Transatlantic Trade whereby Europe, Africa, and the America's engaged in a network of people, raw materials, finished goods, merchants, and sailors bringing wealth to colonial empires. The consequences of the...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Why the Triangular Trade as a Topic?

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice intro into the topic and history of triangular trade. Includes maps and trade routes. Done as a project for Norwegian students.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: African Americans in the British New World: The Middle Passage

For Students 5th - 8th
A description of the Middle Passage, the leg of the triangular trade that brought slaves from Africa to America. Read descriptions of the way slaves were transported in the ships across the ocean.
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Other

Union College: North Atlantic Trade, 1770

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a map that shows the trade routes, principal ports, goods being traded, and the areas possessed by the British and the Spanish.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The African American Migration Story

For Students 9th - 10th
From the transatlantic slave trade to today's New Great Migration, learn about the major African-American migrations and how those movements changed the course of American history.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Salutary Neglect

For Students 9th - 10th
Salutary neglect was a long-standing British policy in the thirteen colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade. There were no effective enforcement agencies and it was expensive to send...
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: John Hawkins Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview and biographical facts on the life of John Hawkins, pioneer of the British slave trade.
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Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: The Middle Passage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson plan on the Middle Passage includes PowerPoint presentation and primary source documents from which students explore original material.
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Library of Economics and Liberty

Library of Economics and Liberty: Mercantilism

For Students 9th - 10th
Studies how and why so many countries participated in Mercantilism and the theory behind Mercantilism.
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University of California

Uc Santa Barbara: What Brought the Europeans to America?

For Students 9th - 10th
Short essay addresses reasons that brought the Europeans to America. Covering many important points, he also provides compelling reasons and a map.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Mercantilism

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides an overview of mercantilism in Colonial America.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Herero

For Students 9th - 10th
The Herero are a Bantu group living today in Namibia and in the Republic of Botswana in southern Africa. The Herero speak a form of southwestern Bantu that is shared most closely by two other major groups. Cattle herding remains the...