1) ANALYZE causes and effects of economic differences among regions in the 13 colonies.

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1) ANALYZE causes and effects of economic
differences among regions in the 13 colonies.

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• A Complete Ch 4.4 Power Notes
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• Ch4.4 Power Notes, pen(cil)

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Ch 4.4 (Power Notes) Roots of Self Govt

• Reading Focus (pp. 120-123)
• Why did England want to regulate colonial trade?
• A. England Regulated Colonial Trade
• 1. England believed in an economic theory called
  mercantilism, which said
• A nation became strong by strictly controlling
  its trade.
• A country should export more than it imported.
• exports - goods sent to markets outside a country
• imports - goods brought into a country

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2. To enforce mercantilism, England passed the
Navigation Acts, laws that regulated trade
between England and the colonies so that England
benefited.

1. Only colonial or English ships could carry goods
   to and from the colonies.
2. Colonial merchants could ship goods such as
   tobacco and cotton only to England.
3. Colonists were encouraged to build their own
   ships.

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B. Trade in Rum and Slaves

• 1. Colonial merchants developed many trade
  routes. One route was known as the triangular
  trade.
• 2. Colonial merchants sometimes defied, or didnt
  follow the Navigation Acts by buying goods from
  the Dutch, French, and Spanish West Indies.