Economic SystemsFor Trade & Colonial Well-being

Karla Castillo

Trade Routes in the Americas

Each port in the Americas was important for trading goods for the well being of their colonies and for their home country.

In South America, some of those goods were sugar, Brazil wood, gold and tropical animals. These were all done by Indian and African slaves.

In North America, the valuables consisted of fur, cocoa, gold and African slaves.

Each of these settlements were making money for their empires through the goods that the countries they

invaded provided for them.

Economics in the Colonies The Europeans

invested a lot of time in finding new goods to make money. Many of them were traded back to their mother countries, but some were trading with their Native neighbors to better their colonies.