WarmUp List the 4 New England Colonies List

Warm-Up • List the 4 New England Colonies • List the 4 Middle Colonies • List the 5 Southern Colonies

Umbrella Question- Mercantilism and Triangle of Trade Describe Mercantilism and the Triangle of Trade. Then explain how they influenced the colonization of the New World. Copy this Umbrella Question into your binder.

Mercantilism

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mercantilism • An economic theory that a nation became strong by keeping strict control over its trade. According to theory of mercantilism, a country should export more than it imports.

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mercantilism • According to mercantilist beliefs, the mother country should encourage trade with her colonies but should prohibit trade between her colonies and other countries.

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Import: goods brought into a country Export: goods sent to markets outside a country

mercantilism • According mercantilist beliefs, the mother country’s exports should be greater than her imports. This would cause gold to flow into the mother country as payment for those exports.

What were the Navigation Acts? • The Navigation Acts were laws that regulated colonial trade so that England could become richer.

What were the Navigation Acts? • The Navigation Acts were laws that regulated colonial trade so that England could become richer. • Colonies could only use colonial or English ships for shipping their goods.

What were the Navigation Acts? • The Navigation Acts were laws that regulated colonial trade so that England could become richer. • Colonies could only use colonial or English ships for shipping their goods. • Key colonial products, such as tobacco and cotton, could only be traded to England.

The Navigation Acts • Positives: • Colonists were encouraged to build ships. • English workers got jobs rolling tobacco and spinning cotton into cloth. • Negatives:

Free Enterprise • Economic competition with little government control • Free enterprise conflicts with mercantilist beliefs because it encourages competition and discourages government regulation of exports and imports.

Mercantilism Positives for the Colonies Negatives for the Colonies • Guaranteed partner • Only allowed to in trade (buy and trade with England sell) with (England) • Might not get the best price • Might not be able to buy the best products

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Balance of Trade • Country could be self-sufficient • Fewer imports than exports • Navigation Acts

Roving Paragraph • How did Mercantilism affect the British colonies? • Who did it benefit? • Who did it hurt? • Why did Britain have such a policy?