What Was the Triangular Trade

question 61

Multiple Choice

What was the triangular trade?

• A) a trade network limited to the American colonies in which New England, the middle colonies, and the southern colonies exchanged region-specific goods
• B) an international trade system that relied on the transportation of enslaved Africans, manufactured goods from Europe, and agricultural commodities from the Americas
• C) a pathway many European merchant vessels took through the Bermuda Triangle, characterized by the number of sailors lost at sea
• D) an early American economic policy based on the idea that unbalanced trade would topple the economy and that superior labor conditions created superior products
• E) a thriving Native American trade system that was disrupted by the arrival of the Europeans and centered on the exchange of furs, crops, and weapons

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