Across
- 4. Materials: Natural resources like tobacco, lumber, and sugar exported from colonies to England for manufacturing.
- 5. Acts: British laws that restricted colonial trade to benefit England and enforce mercantilist policies
- 7. Passage: The brutal sea journey that transported enslaved Africans to the Americas as part of the Triangular Trade5.
- 9. An economic system where colonies existed to benefit the mother country by exporting raw materials and importing finished goods.
- 10. Trade/Triangular Trade: A three-part trade system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas, involving slaves, raw materials, and manufactured goods3.
Down
- 1. The process by which European powers established settlements in the Americas for economic, religious, and political gain.
- 2. Colonies: Colonies like Pennsylvania and New York known for diversity, trade, and moderate farming
- 3. Imports are goods brought into a country, while exports are goods sent out, crucial to colonial trade under mercantilism.
- 6. Colonies: Colonies like Virginia and Georgia with economies based on agriculture and slave labor.
- 8. England Colonies: Colonies like Massachusetts and Connecticut founded for religious freedom, with economies based on trade and small farms.