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  2. Colonial molasses trade - Wikipedia

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    These products were the main exports of the North American colonies, which led to a very secure business relationship between the two areas. Molasses was important in triangular trade . In the triangular trade, slave traders from New England would bring rum to Africa, and in return, they would purchase enslaved Africans.

  3. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    The first Atlantic system was the trade of enslaved Africans to, primarily, American colonies of the Portuguese and Spanish empires. Before the 1520s, slavers took Africans to Seville or the Canary Islands and then exported some of them from Spain to its colonies in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, with 1 to 40 slaves per ship. These supplemented ...

  4. North American fur trade - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of European and Indigenous fur traders in North America, 1777. The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces of Canada and the northeastern American colonies (soon-to-be northeastern United States).

  5. Cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    North American colonies 1763–76. The cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies includes the foods, bread, eating habits, and cooking methods of the Colonial United States.. In the period leading up to 1776, a number of events led to a drastic change in the diet of the American colonists.

  6. Colonial South and the Chesapeake - Wikipedia

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    Most large population centers in colonial America were located in New England or the Middle Colonies. In the Chesapeake Bay area cities included only Baltimore, Maryland, and Richmond, Virginia. Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia. served as major seaports for the Southern colonies in their trade with Europe, Africa, and the ...

  7. Navigation Acts - Wikipedia

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    Since the colonies previously had passed much of their own legislation and appointments, the act included several sections to tighten English control over the colonies generally. The act mandated that all colonial positions of trust in the courts or related to the treasury must be native born subjects of England, Ireland or the colonies.

  8. Colonial goods - Wikipedia

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    The term "colonial goods" became less appropriate with the collapse of the western European empires that followed the Second World War.It nevertheless still appeared in books and articles in the 1970s, by now covering not merely agricultural output from (formerly) colonial countries but all long-life staple foods, regardless of provenance, as well as soap, washing powder and petrol/gasoline ...

  9. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish colonized Florida in the 16th century, with their communities reaching a peak in the late 17th century. In the British and French colonies, most colonists arrived after 1700. They cleared land, built houses and outbuildings, and worked on the large plantations that dominated export agriculture. Many were involved in the labor ...