U.S. History

Chapter 5: Life in the English ColoniesSection 2: The Growth of Trade

English Trade Laws

•Mercantilism—creating & maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade

Exports…

Imports…

English Trade Laws

•Balance of Trade—when a country has fewer imports than exports

English Trade Laws

•Navigation Acts—series of laws that required the colonists to do the bulk of their trading with England

Pros Cons

Colonial Trade

•Molasses Act—placed duties on sugar, molasses, & rum

•Colonists violated Navigation Acts by smuggling goods from the non-English Caribbean

Colonial Trade

•Triangular Trade—pattern of transporting products between the colonies, the West Indies, & Britain

The Middle Passage

•Middle Passage—voyage from Africa to the Americas experienced by enslaved Africans

Olaudah Equiano

The Middle Passage

•Opposition by Quakers

•Slave labor important in southern colonies

•Salve ships built & owned by New Englanders