10/28: LIVE Lesson

Attendance ?: What is your favorite Halloween Candy?

Think about this and be ready to respond in the next slide!

Open Ended

What is your favorite Halloween Candy?

Open Ended

Identify how mercantilism was designed to benefit both colonies and the colonial power.

You can use these answer stems to help you with your answer:

The British received many benefits from mercantilism including...............in return, the British American colonies benefited from mercantilism in these ways…

Poll

Should you follow rules even if they are not enforced?

• Always follow the rules

• If they aren't enforced they don't count

• Sometimes it's okay to bend/break the rules

• OTHER

Open Ended

What effect might all those years of colonial self-government have on the relationship between the colonies and England?

Multiple Choice

In the colonial era, developments such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses represented

• Colonial attempts to build a strong national government

• Efforts by the British to strengthen their control over the colonies

• Steps in the growth of representative democracy

• Early social reform movements

Multiple Choice

During the colonial era, the British promoted the policy of mercantilism to

• Control the commerce of their American colonies

• Promote colonial trade with France and Spain

• Ban all trade between the British colonies in North America

• Restrict the importation of enslaved Africans

Multiple Choice

During the 1600s and 1700s, the fundamental goal of British mercantilism was to

• Prohibit all exports of raw materials from the colonies

• Encourage economic competition with the American colonies

• Develop manufacturing within the colonies

• Maintain a favorable balance of trade for Great Britain with its colonies

Poll

What were your thoughts on today's lesson?