Weighing the Benefits of Colonial Trade
Directions Each trading fact in the Answer Bank benefited either the
colonies or Great Britain. Write each fact under the correct
heading below.
Chapter 4, Lesson 2
Answer Bank
. Africa wanted goods made in New England.
. Great Britain passed the Navigation Acts between 1651 and 1673.
• Africans were captured and brought to America as slaves.
• The British took steps to enforce their laws.
A tax was added to molasses from the West Indies.
• The colonists bought goods from Great Britain.
Triangular trade formed between New England, Africa, and the West Indies.
Some British officials in the colonies were paid to look the other way.
• The number of colonists from Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, and
Ireland was increasing.
• The Woolens Act was passed in 1699.
Benefited the Colonies
Triangular trade formed between
New England, Africa, and the
West Indies,
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Benefited Great Britain