SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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the invention of the steam engine.
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the profitability of the cash crop agriculture.
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the development of the factory system.
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the establishment of protective tariffs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What factor most encouraged the growth of the Triangular Trade? The profitability of cash-crop agriculture (farming). Cash crops like tobacco, rice, & sugarcane demanded lots of labor, which led to tens of thousands of enslaved West Africans being imported into the colonies by way of the Triangular Trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -Overview. During the colonial era, Britain and its colonies engaged in a “triangular trade, ” shipping natural resources, goods, and people across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to enrich the mother country.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Atlantic slave trade was the result of, among other things, labour shortage, itself in turn created by the desire of European colonists to exploit New World land and resources for capital profits.