Curated OER
America & the British Empire (1)
In this online interactive American history worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions regarding colonial America. Students may check their answers immediately.
Curated OER
Triangular Trade
In this triangular trade study guide worksheet, students read a brief overview pertaining to the trade linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas and then respond to a reflection question.
Curated OER
social studies: Life in Colonial America
Students explore the trials and tribulations early colonial life and note its successes. Through literature, Internet research, and interactive software, they engage in various activities to evaluate early social and cultural development.
University of Calgary
The Sugar & Slave Trades
Examines each aspect of the triangle trade. Provides images and information about the Slave trade.
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: The Middle Passage
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson plan on the Middle Passage includes PowerPoint presentation and primary source documents from which students explore original material.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The African American Migration Story
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.
Digital History
Digital History: The Slave Trade [Pdf]
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]
Digital History
Digital History: The Slave Trade's Significance
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Transatlantic Trade
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...
Other
Union College: North Atlantic Trade, 1770
This is a map that shows the trade routes, principal ports, goods being traded, and the areas possessed by the British and the Spanish.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Salutary Neglect
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...
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Mercantilism
Article provides an overview of mercantilism in Colonial America.
Curated OER
Unesco: Why the Triangular Trade as a Topic?
A nice intro into the topic and history of triangular trade. Includes maps and trade routes. Done as a project for Norwegian students.