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Harvesting the Sea: pg 96

Harvesting the Sea: pg 96. 1. What was so good about New England’s Coast?. New England’s coast had the world’s best whaling and fishing grounds:. 2. What were New England’s forests used for?. New England’s forests were used for ship building.

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Harvesting the Sea: pg 96

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  1. Harvesting the Sea: pg 96

  2. 1. What was so good about New England’s Coast?

  3. New England’s coast had the world’s best whaling and fishing grounds:

  4. 2. What were New England’s forests used for?

  5. New England’s forests were used for ship building

  6. It took 2,500 trees to make a ship in colonial times:

  7. 3. What did New Englanders export to the rest of the world?

  8. Lumber and Fish:

  9. 4. What did the population in New England benefit from? • New Englanders benefited from the wealth being created in the seaports

  10. Boston was the busiest and wealthiest city in the colonies

  11. 5. Name three seaports (coastal towns) in New England: • Boston

  12. Salem

  13. Newport

  14. 6. Who did the colonists begin competing with? • England’s fishermen, shipbuilders and merchants:

  15. 7. Who is supposed to profit (make money) from the colonies under the economic theory of Mercantilism? • The Mother Country (England) is supposed to profit from its colonies

  16. 8. Name the Acts that England passed in 1651 to make sure that it profited from colonial prosperity: • The Navigation Acts:

  17. 9. According to the Navigation Acts: • All goods had to be carried on Englishships or ships made in the English Colonies • Products such as tobacco, wood, and sugarcould only be sold toEngland or its colonies

  18. European imports to the colonies had to pass through English ports • Officials were to tax any colonial goods not shipped to England

  19. . 10. How did the colonists feel about these laws? • The American Colonists resented these laws

  20. 11. Merchants _____________the Acts whenever possible. • Ignored

  21. 12. What did England have trouble doing regarding the acts? • England had trouble controlling shipping and patrolling the long coastline of the colonies

  22. 13. What became common? • Smuggling

  23. 14. Define Smuggling: • Importing or exporting goods illegally

  24. 15. What else did England have trouble with regarding colonial shipping? • England also had great difficulty preventing pirates from interfering with colonial shipping:

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