USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Five commodities accounted for over 60 percent of the total value of the mainland colonies’ exports: Tobacco, bread and flour, rice, dried fish, and indigo. Tobacco was by far the highest-valued due to the duties assessed on it on export from America and import into Britain.

Detailed explanation-2: -The colonial economy depended on international trade. American ships carried products such as lumber, tobacco, rice, and dried fish to Britain. In turn, the mother country sent textiles, and manufactured goods back to America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fish was the area’s most valuable export throughout the colonial period, though its primary trade destination shifted over the eighteenth century. By 1768, few of New England’s goods (fish, whale products, livestock, salt meat, and lumber) were headed to Britain; they were instead being sent to the West Indies.

Detailed explanation-4: -Exports. American prosperity depended on the growing value of its exports. By the 1770s, these included not only tobacco and furs, but also rum, wheat, fish, rice, indigo, iron, sugar, and naval stores. Besides seeking political freedom, the colonists wanted independence to control their own global trade.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Middle Colonies had much fertile soil, which allowed the area to become a major exporter of wheat and other grains. The lumber and shipbuilding industries were also successful in the Middle Colonies because of the abundant forests, and Pennsylvania was moderately successful in the textile and iron industries.