Map Activity 1 for Chapter 5
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Key Factors
Figure false: MAP 5.2 Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century
Figure false: This map illustrates the economic outlook of the colonies in the eighteenth century—east toward the Atlantic world rather than west toward the interior of North America. The long distances involved in the Atlantic trade and the uncertainties of ocean travel suggest the difficulties Britain experienced governing the colonies and regulating colonial commerce.
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