Mercantilism

1
Economics in the colonies

• Mercantilism
• Northwest Passage
• Slavery

2
Other Countries

• France
• Traders along the Mississippi River and in the
  Ohio Valley
• Made friends with the Native America tribes.
• Trappers and fur traders, wilderness men
• Spain
• Missions throughout Southwest and coastal
  California
• Missions and control of Florida

3
The 3 great powers

• When the 3 great powers fought, it effected their
  colonies.

13 colonies India Africa Caribbean
South America Mexico Southwest Central America
Caribbean Mississippi River Canada
4
Mercantilism

• The economic theory that the country with the
  most wealth is the most powerful.
• Whoever has the most toys wins!

5
Northwest Passage

• The search for a shorter and safer way to get to
  Asia and India from Europe. All in search for
  gold and a land of riches.

6
Columbian Exchange

• The exchanging of goods form east to west and
  west to east.

7
Indentured Servants

• A person who worked for 7 years as a servant to
  pay off the passage fare to the new world.

8
Slavery

• African taken from their homeland and sold into
  slavery.
• Triangle trade route the route taken from New
  England colonies to Africa to the West Indies
  back to the colonies to trade goods.
• The Middle Passage the route from Africa to the
  West Indies many people died.

9
Slavery

• 1st slaves to come to the new world in 1619 to
  Jamestown, many earned their freedom
• Slaves sold in town squares to the highest bidder
  families broken apart.