1. Trans-Atlantic Trade and the American Colonies
The southern colonies no longer had to worry about the back breaking work needed to be done during harvest time anymore due to the bringing of African slaves to Northern America. The slave trade would eventually change the whole economy of the colonies. ... With this new labor system the colonies were able to produce crops at a much faster and cheaper rate to ship to Britain. The trans-Atlantic interactions of the colonies with foreign countries stopped in 1660 under the Navigation Acts. ... It also made sure the colonies' goods flowed only through Britain before it was shipped to any f...
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