Transatlantic trade

During colonial times, ________ and its colonies engaged in the "triangular trade, "transporting natural resources, goods, and people across the Atlantic Ocean to enrich their motherland.

Establishing colonies promoted ________ in two ways: first, the colonies ensured the mother country had a cheap supply of raw materials (timber, sugar, tobacco, furs, just to name a few), and second, the colonies served as captive market for finished goods (furniture, guns, metal implements)

Trade with Europeans had far- reaching effects on Native American communities, including wars, ________, and disease.

In 1651 Parliament passed the first ________, intended to govern the terms of trade between Great Britain and its colonies.

During the ________ and 17th centuries, trade laws (and their scope of enforcement) changed as new kings and new prime ministers came to power in the British government.

first, the colonies ensured the mother country had a cheap supply of raw materials (timber, sugar, tobacco, furs, just to name a few), and second, the colonies served as captive market for finished goods (furniture, guns, metal implements)

few ships would have completed the full triangle, and ships might also make more than one stop in the colonies-to exchange food from New England and enslaved people from the sugar islands, for instance

the islands of the Caribbean produced sugar, Carolina produced rice and indigo, the Chesapeake produced tobacco, and the Middle colonies produced foodstuffs like grain

beaver furs in the North and deerskins in the South

promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods.

urope supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials, and Africa supplied the Americas with enslaved laborers.

warfare, cultural change, and disease