Triangle Trade

Much of early American history revolves around trade, and this trade took a very specific form for British North America: what is commonly known as the Triangle Trade. Research the Triangle Trade, using scholarly Internet sources; please do not use history.com, Wikipedia, or the like. You can use the citations at the end of a Wikipedia article to find other sources, but you should not use Wikipedia as a source itself. Then, create a timeline of the Triangle Trade, including the years (or specific dates, if applicable) of at least five important events in its story. Be sure to briefly (a few sentences) describe the event, and why it was important. —————————————— Additional info: When you complete the assignment, you will encounter the terms “primary source” and “secondary source”. What do these terms mean? First, it does NOT refer to how important the source is to your work. The main source you’re using is not your “primary source”, and supporting sources are not your “secondary sources”. That’s not what it means. A primary source is usually from the time you’re studying and often is intended to serve a purpose other than being a historical source. Often, they are created by eyewitnesses, and generally don’t derive from other sources. For example Newspaper articles from the time. They are intended to give the news to people that day. Pop culture (music, novels, poetry, artwork, movies and TV shows, comic books, etc.) from the time. They are intended to inspire/entertain/affect the people at the time. Diaries, journals, and memoirs, written by witnesses or people who had personal experience. These may be intended as historical sources, but often they are written first just for the person who wrote them. Letters, telegrams, etc. Their purpose is to communicate between people at the time. An interview would also be a primary source if the person was a witness or was personally affected by what you’re writing about (for example if you interview a relative who was in the Vietnam War). A secondary source is more recent, and it is generally derived from other (often primary) sources. It compiles other sources and draws conclusions from them. For example Encyclopedia articles. Books or journal articles by historians. The text on museum displays (unless it’s a direct quote from someone at the time). Web sites (unless they are the digitized text of a primary source). ——————————————- ** will need to use Chicago Style to cite references- can use this link to generate citations: https://www.citationmachine.net/chicago