MAIN IDEA: FISHING AND TRADE CONTRIBUTED TO THE GROWTH AND PROSPERITY OF THE NEW ENGLAND

COLONIES

4.1 New England:Commerce and Religion

New England Resources:

Farming and Harvesting the

Sea

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF HAVING A DIVERSIFIED ECONOMY?

WEALTH = POWER MORE WEALTH MEANS MORE POWERPROFITS FROM EXPORT > IMPORT EXPENSES

COLONIES PROVIDE:1. SUPPLIES OF RAW MATERIALS2. A MARKET FOR FINISHED GOODS

MERCANTILISM

England

Colonies

Raw Materials

Finished Products

Currency

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Triangular Trade/Slavery Interactives

Mercantilist Controls on Trade

Navigation Acts, 1651 1. only English ships may trade with the

colonies2. Cash Crops and raw materials like lumber

could only be sold to England or its colonies

3. European imports Europe must first pass through England (and be taxed)

4. English tax collectors were to tax any goods not shipped directly to England

SMUGGLING PIRACY

Why would colonists smuggle?

What are the risks?

What attracted pirates to the colonies?

Where did they operate?

Colonial Reaction to the Navigation Acts

New England Society

Northern colonies’ economy grows faster than England’s (Protestant Work Ethic)

More urbanized than other coloniesGrowing merchant classVERY diverse economyMore & more diverse people, less

“Puritan”Slavery

Existed, but not on the same level Farming in the north is less labor intensive

  New England Colonies Middle Colonies Southern Colonies

Climate     

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Resources  p.110   

   

People  p.112   

   

African-Americans

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Economic Development

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  New England Colonies

Middle Colonies Southern Colonies Backcountry

Climate     

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Resources   p.110   

     

People  p.112   

     

African-Americans

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Economic Development

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