HIST 103A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Middle Colonies, Newport Historical Society, American Enlightenment
8 Mar 2018
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The steady increase in demand for consumer goods during the 18th century. Tea originated in china but british has a trading company that did business with china (east india company) The british empire was good at incorporating its colonies and investing them in their atlantic/ global network of trade. People in the british empire have privileged access to the borders in which trade exists. The british empire was deeply integrated in world trade. Intensification and expansion of labor during the 18th century. How people worked to get these consumer items. A shift made in order to purchase consumer goods. People started working harder and organizing their households to produce goods for sale on the market. So they would have money to pay for the goods that they wanted. Not the industrial revolution (new machinery), that happens a century later. 60% of colonial exports (goods entering atlantic market) Large landowners grow and underclass of agricultural workers grow.
