Life in New England/New England's Economy

Choose the correct vocabulary word of the picture.

• import

• export

• triangular trade route

• free-market

Match the following

• furs, lumber, grain, whale oil,

• import

• tea, spices, cloth, shoes, paper

• export

• A product that leaves a country.

• England exported:

• A product brought into a country.

• New England exported:

All the businesses that make one kind of product or offer one kind of service.

• free-market

• industry

• export

• import

An economic system where people are free to choose the goods and services they buy and make.

• free-market

• industry

• export

• import

Products used to build ships.

The journey millions of enslaved Africans were forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the West Indies.

• naval stores

• charter

• Middle Passage

A grassy area shared by the town's people, and used for grazing sheep, cattle, and other livestock.

• import

• common

• export

• free-trade

An assembly of people from a New England town that made laws and elected leaders.

• town meeting

• industry

• common

What was a common punishment for missing church or speaking dissent?

Why was education important to the Puritans?