Profit from Seventeenth-Century European Colonies in the Americas Was Increasingly

question 71

Multiple Choice

Profit from seventeenth-century European colonies in the Americas was increasingly based on

• A)cash crops, especially sugar and tobacco.
• B)extraction of wealth, such as silver, rather than production.
• C)manufactured goods produced in the colonies.
• D)drugs and herbal medicines produced by the Indians.
• E)the fur trade.

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