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Triangular Trade

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This activity has it all, primary source documents, an interactive trade game, clear teacher background information, and sailing to the West Indies chance cards. You will play, trade, and live out the experiences of early colonists in...
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Triangular Trade

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this triangular trade study guide worksheet, pupils read a brief overview pertaining to the trade linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas and then respond to a reflection question.
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Triangular Trade and Its Effects

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate the trade routes and investigate goods and services were transported along each route. Given a primary source document, that represents a personal story related to the triangle trade, they discuss given questions.
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The Slave Trade

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students map and explore a possible slave trade route. In this slave trade mapping lesson, students calculate the distance and amount of time it would take for African slaves to arrive in America.
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social studies: Life in Colonial America

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
Interactive
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America & the British Empire (1)

For Students 8th - 12th
In this online interactive American history worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions regarding colonial America. Students may check their answers immediately.
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Geometry In the Yard

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students are responsible for creating a border around a triangular garden spot, of which they know the measurements for two sides. They use the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate the third side and complete the garden.
Worksheet
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Reading Comprehension 7

For Students 8th - 9th
Develop reading comprehension! With this resource, your kids will read a passage and focus on reading comprehension. There are a list of seven questions to answer after reading, but consider offering your class a specific strategy to...
Worksheet
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Worksheet #27 Questions - Middle Colonies

For Students 8th - 9th
In this middle colonies worksheet, students examine their knowledge through ten fill in the blank questions that relate to the aforementioned topic.
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What's My Area?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use tiles to find area. In this finding area lesson, students explore how to use square tiles to make shapes, then look at how they can be used to measure area. Young scholars then explore how an area can be covered with...
Worksheet
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Virginia: Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th - 7th
In this Virginia reading comprehension worksheet, students read a multiple-page selection regarding the state and then respond to 10 true or false questions.
Article
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.
Handout
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.
Website
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]
Article
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...
Graphic
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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.
Graphic
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.
Interactive
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.
Article
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...
Handout
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.
Lesson Plan
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.