SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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import
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export
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immigrate
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irrigate
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Lumber, wool, iron, cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo were among the products needed in England. British manufacturers in the meantime needed markets for the goods they produced. The American colonies bought their cloth, furniture, knives, guns, and kitchen utensils from England.
Detailed explanation-3: -New England and the Middle Colonies exported a wide range of products including iron, wheat, livestock, whale oil, fish, and rum, worth about £500, 000 annually. Newfoundland, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, recently acquired from the French, exported much less; the value of fish and furs was only about £200, 000.
Detailed explanation-4: -They brought supplies. In the holds of their ships, the early settlers brought axes, shovels, hammers, nails, other tools, pigs, cows, sheep, goats, seed from English plants, and as many personal belongings as they could afford. They were reasonably well equipped to start a new life in the wilderness.