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AMERICAN REVOLUTION
By Eduardo Vega
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Trade of Goods and Money
• During the 18th century, trade was a very important thing,
and it soon became a very complex thing.
• Since many areas became involved in the trading, a
multilateral trading system was developed and put to use.
• During this time there was a consumer revolution and
prices of good went down.
• Thanks to the price drop of goods, more types of good
became available.
• American colonies consumed about 10 percent of British
exports.
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Trade of Goods and Money
• There was a growing number of poverty in the 1750’s and
1760’s in the urban seaports.
• Since immigration became such a big thing, there was a
very large increase in the number of poor people, since
more and more poor newcomers immigrated to the
colonies.
• The number of unemployment went up and the wages
were really low.
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Immigrants in the Colonies
• Immigration was already a huge thing for people
to do, but in 1713 to 1714 parliament started to
send shipments of convicted felons to the
colonies instead of executing them.
• They were usually employed by planters in the
colonies as tobacco field hands and were put to
work.
• In 1728, the governor pushed for a limitation in
the immigration to try to stop an English
plantation from being turned into a large colony of
immigrants.
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Reasons for Immigration
• The reasons why so many people chose, or were
made to, immigrate to the colonies was all the
new opportunities they would have once there.
• Most of the immigrants that came to the America
improved their status and their living conditions.
• Even women saw a huge improvement, as some
men even saw them as equals. Some were
allowed to work and have things they would own.
• Their housing standards improved as well as the
things they could now afford.
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Piracy• During war time, Colonial governors gave pirates
official privileges to take enemy boats.
• Even places such as England found pirates as
useful people, they used pirates for attacking the
Spanish Empire, who at the time was more
powerful.
• By the 1700’s, pirates had become a very useful
tool empires used in their advantage.
• Captain William Kidd raided the Indian Ocean
and became a well know and infamous convicted
pirate of the time.
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Piracy• Places like New York, South Carolina and
Jamaica became known for their hosting of
pirates.
• Pirates were well known for being able to “live
well” as they liked to call it. Being able to eat,
sleep, do pretty much everything in
abandonment.
• Every crew member got an equal share, except
for the captain who would also get no more than
a double share.
• The captain could not punish a sailor without the
consent of the rest of the crew.
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Independence
• Soon after, the colonies didn’t really depend on
the mainland.
• Thanks to the trade they had with all the other
places in the world, they had pretty much
everything they needed and didn’t really require
support.
• Since the people there felt like they didn't belong
to the mainland anymore, they learn to live on
their own and learned skills that helped them
survive and grow without the help of others.