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How did competition over resources lead to industry and trade?
How did competition over resources lead to industry and trade?
What role did the availability of resources play in the consumer revolution?
What role did the availability of resources play in the consumer revolution?
What role did the consumer play in the competition over resources?
What role did the consumer play in the competition over resources?
How does supply and demand factor into the situation that led to the first consumer revolution?
How does supply and demand factor into the situation that led to the first consumer revolution?
Triangular Trade
Triangular Trade
What it was: A trading system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Main driver: The slave trade, which both fueled and expanded the system.
Early example: Sir John Hawkins (England) carried enslaved Africans to Spanish colonies for profit.
Spanish control: Through the asiento system, Spain licensed slave traders, taxing them while keeping control.
đź’° Impact
đź’° Impact
Huge profits for merchants, investors, and governments.
Involved powerful investors like Isaac Newton and Queen Anne through the South Sea Company.
Led to speculation and collapse in the South Sea Bubble (1720).
Slavery expanded, with brutal conditions and rising demand.
By the 1800s, slavery’s economic entrenchment meant abolition often required violent conflict.
Map Study
Map Study
The question for this lesson is not as straightforward as it may seem. The word "how" requires some thought about the changes that occur over time.Â
Consider what manufacturing and trade was like before the resources of the Americas were discovered.Â
Next, consider what it took for each country to situated themselves as the controllers of those resources.
It's important to remember a few of the trade goods traveling to and from each region. Think about how geography affects what comes from a region to help remember the examples.
🔄 How it worked
🔄 How it worked
Europe → Africa: Guns, rum, textiles, and manufactured goods traded for enslaved Africans.
Africa → Americas: Enslaved Africans endured the Middle Passage and were sold.
Americas → Europe: Raw materials from slave labor—sugar, tobacco, cotton, molasses, gold, and silver—sent back to Europe.
What Resources?
What Resources?
Video clip ... 5:15 to 11:37
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"Colonial Society"
"Colonial Society"
What caused the Consumer Revolution, and how did it change American life?Â
The Dutch
The Dutch
Read the article and be able to respond to the questions below.
Hudson’s Voyage
How did European exploration in the early 1600s establish competing claims in North America, and why did the Dutch see opportunity in the Hudson River region?
Patroonship System
What strategies did the Dutch West India Company use to encourage settlement in New Netherland, and how successful were these efforts compared to other colonies?
Kieft’s War
Why did conflict erupt between Dutch settlers and Native groups in the 1640s, and how did these clashes reflect broader patterns of European-Indian relations in the colonies?
Conflict and Commerce_ The Rise and Fall of New Netherland.pdf
Source Analysis
Source Analysis
Navigation Acts
Navigation Acts
Make a document in the shared drive folder to complete the following.
Summarize the 4 parts of the Navigation Act (first document).
Paragraph response: How did mercantilist restrictions hamper the development of Virginia? (second document)
Synthesis
Synthesis
Use what you have from the lesson to complete the skills packet page below.
Use what you have from the lesson to complete the skills packet page below.
Skills Packet
Skills Packet
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