Trade in the Colonies

 

What is a favorable balance of trade?

• A nation has more trade than their neighbor

• A nation's imports and exports are equal

• A nation has more exports than imports

• A nation has more imports than exports

Which geographic feature allowed the Mid-Atlantic (Middle Colonies) colonies to have a longer growing season than the New England colonies?

• thick forests

• flat lands with rocky soil

• navigable rivers (Able to travel)

• milder climate

What was the reason labor needed more workers in the colonies?

• to keep up with the French colonies

• to keep up with the Spanish colonies

• to keep up with agricultural demand

• to keep up with manufacturing demand

 

What was the Middle Passage?

• A sea route from Africa to the Americas carrying slaves

• A bridge over the Mississippi River to help westward expansion

• A trail through the Appalachian Mountains to open up the fur trade

• A route in the colonies for trade along the rivers

Small farms, rocky soil, cold winters, short growing season describes

• Western Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

What are goods that are bought by a nation?

• exports

• triangular trade

• mercantilism

• imports

What did the Navigation Acts do?

• Outlawed slavery in England and all English colonies

• Created a system of free trade between Europe and the Americas

• Prevented the Colonies from trading with England

• Prevented the Colonies from trading with countries other than England

The belief that money equals power, a country should sell more than it buys, and it should have more exports than imports.

• Nativism

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Republicanism

Laws that governed trade between Great Britain and its colonies, the American Colonies were required to trade exclusively with Britain and could not trade with other countries.

• Quartering Acts

• Stamp Acts

• Alien and Sedition Acts

• Navigation Acts

Which became the most profitable agricultural crop of colonial Virginia?

• Tobacco

• Corn

• Wheat

• Cotton