Sugar from Caribbean plantations went to New England, where merchants made rum for trade in Africa. What Atlantic network is shown?

New England merchants shipped fish and lumber to Caribbean sugar plantations. What did they most often bring back?

Which colonial region shipped large amounts of tobacco and rice across the Atlantic to British markets?

British factories shipped finished goods like cloth and tools to the colonies. Under British trade laws, whom did colonists usually have to buy such goods from?

Molasses from Caribbean sugar islands was shipped to New England. What did New England distillers make from it?

Rum made in New England was shipped across the Atlantic. Where was much of it traded for captive Africans?

Britain wanted colonies to send raw materials and buy British goods. What economic policy guided that goal?

Which English laws required many colonial goods to travel on English ships and pass through English ports?

Under mercantilism, a nation tried to grow rich by selling more goods to other lands than it bought from them. What was this goal called?

Many colonial merchants avoided British trade rules by secretly trading with French and Dutch islands. What was this practice called?

Mercantilists believed a nation's wealth was measured mainly by what?

Large tobacco plantations in Virginia needed many field workers for export profits. What colonial labor development did this demand expand?

Rice plantations in South Carolina required year-round labor in difficult swampy fields. What system grew as planters sought controlled labor?

In the late 1600s, many Virginia planters turned from indentured servants to enslaved Africans. What was one reason?

In 1662, Virginia passed a law about children born to enslaved mothers. What did it decide?

Why did slavery grow much larger in the Southern Colonies than in New England?

Captive Africans were forced across the Atlantic in crowded ships from West Africa to the Americas. What part of the trade system was this?

Ships on the Middle Passage packed captives tightly with little food, water, or air. About what share of captives died during the crossing?

Which formerly enslaved man described his own Middle Passage in a 1789 autobiography?

Captives who survived the Middle Passage were sold at colonial ports like this one. Which mainland colony's port, Charleston, received more captives than any other in North America?