What Are The Causes Of Triangle Trade

Triangle trade is the system of which slaves, crops, and manufacturers were traded between Africa, The Caribbean, and the American Colonies. In the early settlements, goods came from two main sources: England and Africa. Britain shipped needed items with the return of enslaved Africans. Portuguese merchants dominated West African slave trade. Eventually, British and French would replace Portuguese as major slave traders. The French forced millions of Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as a part of the Atlantic slave trade.It sent millions of Africans from West Africa to the West Indies. Many of them died from diseases and some of them died from starvation. The slaves were fed twice a day and some captains did not clean the hold (ship). The air holes on the deck were open so the slaves could breath, but closed when there were bad weather conditions. The slaves that could not be traded were left for dead.

The Navigation Acts were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign trade between the colonies and any country except Britain. The first Navigation Act was to restrict the Dutch from shipping, because they were a big competition and threat. The 1660 Navigation act was designed to prevent fraudulent evasions, and the act served justice to England. The 1663 Navigation Act (Stamp Act) stated that colonial exports had to be transported in English, or colonial, ships and that all colonial imports had to pass through English ports. The Navigation Acts of 1663, 1669, and 1773 were designed to: increase taxes on goods, close trade loopholes, increase the lists of “goods and commodities’’, and demand a enforce on navigation