AMERICAN REVOLUTION

By Eduardo Vega

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.