Triangle Trade: Transatlantic Trade With The Middle Passage

2. Describe the notorious triangle trade with the middle passage.

The triangle trade with the middle passage would be the transatlantic slave trade. The triangular trade connected three countries through its four decade long exploitation of black men, women, and children. The ships would first leave the West Indies with imports to exchange for slaves in Africa. When reaching Africa, captains would trade rum and other iron products for slaves to ship back to America. The colonies then exported a lot of agricultural products, produced by the slaves, to Europe. Several countries were involved in the triangular trade, including the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, England, and France.

3. What was the basis of the British Empire?

The basis of
Before the start of aircraft, most of the colonies were accessible safely only by sea routes. The Royal Navy was among the largest and most advanced of the navies during the Age of Discovery and it helped them establish good connectivity with trading stations and forts in their colonies. The victory against the Spanish Armada and against the French at Trafalgar are just two of many battles which bear testimony to this fact. The Spanish and Portuguese reached South America early and had really wealthy empires there. The British hired privateers to loot Spanish galleons, loaded heavily with gold, in the open ocean, of which Sir Francis Drake and Captain Henry Morgan are the most famous.

4. Why was slavery important to the British Empire?

Slavery was important to the British Empire because it allowed a powerful workforce with a very minimal upkeep. It was such a financially sound investment, almost like to hiring a worker to do a task, or buying a robot once that will do it forever, just pay for the electricity. In addition, one thing overlooked is that the slave trade itself was a huge market. It provided thousands of jobs and careers, and much like the real estate market of today was a powerful indicator of the status of the economy because it played such a pivotal role in the foundations of that economy.

5. What general observations can we make about the relationship between the Mother Country England and the “colonial
Explain the impact the King Philip’s War had on not just New England but the colonial American experience.

King Phillip’s War had a major impact on New England as well as the colonies as a whole. King Philip's War, for a time, seriously damaged the recently arrived English colonists' prospects in New England. But with their extraordinary population growth rate of about 3% a year (doubling every 25 years), they repaired all the damage, replaced their losses, rebuilt the destroyed towns and continued on with establishing new towns within a few years. The colonists, realising the vulnerability of their position, sought to become stronger both as a military force and as a community.

The Puritan English saw their victory over Native Americans as a sign from God. The Puritans were confident in their settlements and ready to expand. The natives, on the other hand, were reduced to an insignificant presence in New England. Any independence they had maintained from the colonists before the war was lost. Thereafter, they were under the legal and political structures of the colonies and unable to maintain separate governments. Almost all native lands were acquired by the colonists, and many natives were kept as slaves in the