Mercantilism
This economic system was based on colonies providing wealth and resources to their mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Enslaved Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean on this part of the triangular trade route.
What was the Middle Passage?
These were the three major colonial regions.
What were New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies?
This religious movement swept through the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.
What was the Great Awakening?
This war was fought in North America between Great Britain and France.
What was the French and Indian War?
Under mercantilism, colonies were expected to provide these materials, such as tobacco, cotton, and lumber.
What are raw materials?
Enslaved Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean on this part of the triangular trade route.
What was the Middle Passage?
This colonial region was known for large plantations and cash crops.
What were the Southern Colonies?
This preacher gave the famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
The war was largely fought over control of this region in North America.
What was the Ohio River Valley?
Under mercantilism, colonies were expected to buy finished goods primarily from this country.
What is the mother country (or Great Britain)?
European countries sent manufactured goods, such as guns and cloth, to this continent.
What is Africa?
Fertile soil and a moderate climate helped this colonial region become known as the “breadbasket” colonies.
What were the Middle Colonies?
The Great Awakening encouraged colonists to develop this type of direct relationship with God.
What was a personal relationship with God?
During the war, most American colonists fought alongside this European country.
What was Great Britain?
This was the goal of mercantilism: for a country to export more goods than it imports.
What is a favorable balance of trade?
The Americas supplied goods such as sugar, tobacco, and rum through this trade system.
What was triangular trade?
Rocky soil and a short growing season led New England colonists to develop industries such as fishing and shipbuilding. This demonstrates the influence of this factor on colonial economies.
What is geography?
Because the Great Awakening encouraged people to question traditional church leaders, it weakened this type of control.
What is traditional religious authority?
This 1763 agreement officially ended the French and Indian War.
What was the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
These British laws regulated colonial trade and required many goods to be shipped on British vessels.
What were the Navigation Acts?
This system of trade helped increase the forced migration of millions of Africans to the Americas.
What was the transatlantic slave trade?
Because of their geography and natural resources, New England colonies developed an economy based heavily on these two activities.
What were fishing and shipbuilding?
By encouraging colonists to question traditional authority, the Great Awakening helped promote this idea that later influenced the American Revolution.
What is challenging authority or independent thinking?
After the war, Britain faced this major problem, which led to new taxes on the American colonists.
What was a large national debt?