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Why was molasses important to the thirteen American colonies?

There was no tax on molasses, so it was cheap to import it.

Britain was forced to buy molasses from the colonies.

The colonists needed molasses to make rum, a valuable export.

Molasses was a raw material that was found only in the thirteen colonies.

Mercantilism is an economic theory stating that colonies should

build independent economies.

trade with many other nations.

mainly benefit the founding country.

not be burdened with taxes.

The laws that established an official system of slavery in the American colonies

stated that children could not be born into slavery.

allowed enslaved people to go free if they had been indentured.

made it legal to keep enslaved people for their entire lives.

required that a person’s enslavement end after a period of time.

The economy of early colonial Virginia depended on

tobacco plantations.

sugar plantations.

trade with France.

trade with Spain.

Slave codes affected enslaved people by

turning them into indentured servants.

protecting them from slaveholders.

keeping them powerless.

protecting them from the government.

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