Virginia Company - payed to send expeditions and supplies to Jamestown
Corporate Colony - Colonies operated by joint-stock companies during the early years of the colonies, such as Jamestown
Mercantilism - Economic policy that promoted English manufacturing and trade by regulating colonial commerce and manufacturing
Navigation Acts - Merchants traded colonist rum for African slaves, African slaves for West Indies sugar cane, and sugar cane needed to make rum to the colonies
Triangular Trade - Laws imposed by Britain on the American colonists that required colonists to trade primarily with Britain
Enlightenment - Colonial economic success led many to believe religion had slipped
Treaty of Paris 1763 - France ceded Canada to Britian, Spain gave Florida to Britian for Philipines and Cuba, and Spain acquired Louisiana. Caused French Revolution.
Tobacco - main crop in the colonies, used for trade
Sugar Cane - main crop in West Indies
Trans Atlantic Trade - demand for labor led planters to use this to farm tobacco
Corporate Colony - Colonies operated by joint-stock companies during the early years of the colonies, such as Jamestown
Mercantilism - Economic policy that promoted English manufacturing and trade by regulating colonial commerce and manufacturing
Navigation Acts - Merchants traded colonist rum for African slaves, African slaves for West Indies sugar cane, and sugar cane needed to make rum to the colonies
Triangular Trade - Laws imposed by Britain on the American colonists that required colonists to trade primarily with Britain
Enlightenment - Colonial economic success led many to believe religion had slipped
Treaty of Paris 1763 - France ceded Canada to Britian, Spain gave Florida to Britian for Philipines and Cuba, and Spain acquired Louisiana. Caused French Revolution.
Tobacco - main crop in the colonies, used for trade
Sugar Cane - main crop in West Indies
Trans Atlantic Trade - demand for labor led planters to use this to farm tobacco