EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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Tea and machinery
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Coal and oil
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Meat and fish
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Wheat and corn
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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: -In the mid-eighteenth century the island colonies of Bermuda, Barbados, Jamaica, and the four Leeward Islands were the British Empire’s most valuable possessions because of the demand for sugar and its by-products, molasses and rum.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The English colonies in North America sent fish and lumber to the West Indies in exchange for enslaved people and sugar. Goods and people flowed from Europe, Africa, and North America in the system of transatlantic trade.
Detailed explanation-5: -Britain relied on the colonies as source of raw materials, such as lumber and tobacco. Americans engaged with new forms of trade and financing that increased their ability to buy British-made goods.