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colonial economy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What common jobs were available in the New England colonies? | Cutting timber, shipbuilding, and fishing. |
| What common jobs were available in the Middle colonies? | Growing staple crops. |
| What common jobs were available in the Southern colonies? | Growing Cash crops. |
| what jobs did all colonies have? | Self sufficiency, fur trapping/trading. |
| What are economics? | The science that deals with production, distribution, and consumption of goods an services. |
| What is mercantilism? | Creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade. |
| what are the Navigation Acts? | Law made by Britain that stated the colonies could only trade with Britain. |
| What is favorable balannce of trade? | When a country Exports more than it imports. |
| What is import mean? | Goods that are brought into a country that were made in another foreign country. |
| What does export mean? | Goods that are made in a country and are shipped to other foreing countries. |