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Economic Issues & Mercantilism NOTES TEMPLATE!!!

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Complete the Chart using your notes.

6. Economic Issues

& Mercantilism

Backcountry (West)

• area near or across Appalachian Mountains.
• Many Scots-Irish

The Four COLONIAL REGIONS

NEW ENGLAND

COLONIES

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• Rocky Soil
• Cold Climate
• Short Growing Season

(fur, fish, timber)

MIDDLE COLONIES

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• Fertile Soil
• Shorter winters
• Many different faith groups
• Many from other nations in Europe.
• Breadbasket Colonies

(grains, flour, metal goods)

SOUTHERN

COLONIES

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* Warmest Climate

* Best Fertile Soil

* Slave Labor

• Tobacco, Rice and

Indigo

High population density

Low population density

�Triangular Trade / Transatlantic Slave Trade�

The Four Steps

1. Ship loaded with rum and iron leaves New England for Africa.
2. Rum and iron traded for African Slaves
3. Slaves Traded for sugar and molasses in the West Indies.
4. Molasses sent to New England to make rum

Why do you think the Transatlantic Slave Trade began?

Caribbean

North America

Colonies

Africa

South America/ Caribbean/West Indies

Rum, Iron

Slaves

“Middle Passage”

Slaves,

Sugar, Molasses

England

(Mother Country)

Raw Materials

Manufactured Goods

Each person occupied a tiny space in the hold, - in this case they had to lie in spaces just 10 inches high and were often chained or shackled together in pairs, making movement even more difficult. The cramped conditions meant that there were high incidences of diseases such as smallpox, measles, scurvy and dysentery. Because of the long distances involved food and water was rationed and always in short supply or ran out completely. The only escape from the cramped positions were short periods of exercise on the deck, although this would only have occurred in good weather.

What was it really like?

�Transport Routes of African Slaves�

Which region developed an intricate system of trade routes?

Caribbean

or Central America or West Indies

Navigation Acts - 1651

• Whale oil, lumber, fur, rice, silk, indigo, tobacco, sugar molasses and wood Certain Goods could only be traded with England.
• Products from Europe had to go through English ports.
• Certain colonial goods had to be taxed – giving England more profit.
• Smuggling was common
• Without competition, could England charge whatever price it wanted?

Slaves in New England

• New England farms too small to have slaves.

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• Slaves in New England work in cities on the docks, shops and warehouses.
• Slaves in the North worked in trade-related jobs

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• Some slaves allowed to keep part of their wage and gain freedom..(New England was home to more free blacks than any other region)

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• What is a key similarity between a free black and a slave? (hint: think rights/amendments)

Note:

By the early 1800’s, most of New England outlawed slavery.

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In your spiral

Explain what Mercantilism is in your own words.

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Mercantilism: an economic system when a mother country controls all the trade of its colonies

Trade in the colonies

Use your notes to complete the “Trade in the Colonies” worksheet.

Advanced to do

1. Finish “Trade in the Colonies”
2. DOL: Formative Economic Issues

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THEN

• Finish missing work (Map Label)
• Study Guide for Unit 1 Test

Map Activity

Label the map using the word bank!

DON’T FORGET:

Shade the Regions different colors

Enlightenment and Great awakening reading & Questions

Read and answer the questions.

On paper.

You may work with a partner.

Economic Issues DOL

In Formative!!

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