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Ships from the Americas brought back a variety of items Europeans, Asians, and Africans had never seen before.
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10-12 million were transported to work as slaves.
15% died on ships -
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aimed to placate Brittain's Indian allies ny forbidding American settlement west of the crest of the Appalachian Mountains.
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The Stamp Act passed to raise revenue, heavily taxed printed materials. Americans at the Stamp Act Congress held in October of 1765, took their first step toward united resistance. They agreed not to import British goods and the congress forced Parliament in 1766 to repeal the Stamp Act.
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The Meermin set sail from Madagascar carrying slaves to South Africa.
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This act taxed glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported into the colonies from Britain. Resistance to these taxes in Boston led the British government tostation two regiments of troops there in 1768.
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When a small detachment of British troops fired into an angry crowd, killing five Bostonians.
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The Tea Act gave the British East India Company a monopoly over all tea sold in the American colonies. A huge but debt-ridden entity, the East India Company governed India for the British Empire.
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Minutemen clashed with British troops at Lexington and Concord near Boston. This was the first battle in what became a war for independence.
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When Thomas Jefferson wrote “that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” he was not supporting black claims for freedom.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which paved the way for the expansion of cotton kingdoms in the South.
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England abolished slave trade and by the time the slave trade ended, the English had transported 1.7 million Africans
