Trade Routes
Trade Patterns
the larger trade network connected
Native Americans
Colonists
African traders
Europeans
provided the money, the ships the manufactured goods for trade
provided some of the labor to produce raw materials for Europe, they alsomade deals with Native American traders
provided knowledge of the area and sometimes helped the colonists, they were the sources of some raw materials
along the west coast of Africa supplied slaves to European slave traders
The Web of Trade
Migration to the New World
Trade Laws
people moved along the web of trade and this increased migration
Forced Labor
European settlement grew so the demand for people to work on plantations grew
people from England, Scotland, and Ireland were brought to America against their will to work on plantations
some other were convicts sent by the British government and sold as indentured servants
they cost less than African slaves
Moving by Choice
land was hard to get, and Europe was involved in many wars
two groups became important to the New World in the 1700s
Germans
Scots
some were running away from war.
some had beliefs that differed from their government's religion, they wanted freedom to worship in their own way
in 1707, England united with Scotland to create Great Britain
this allowed the citizens of Scotland to move to any English colony