USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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: -Major industry for the colony included Agriculture (fishing, corn, livestock), Manufacturing (lumbering, shipbuilding). Natural Resources: The main natural resource in Massachusetts was timber. The timber from the region provided the raw material for shipbuilding.

Detailed explanation-4: -The goods that needed to be brought into the colonies from England included manufactured products such as guns, cloth, furniture and tools. Other items such as tea and spices were also sent to the colonies.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.