Question

HOW did commodities (such as cotton, tea, fur, tobacco) transform people in the North American empire building up until the eighteenth century?

Answer 1

The North American empire included different colonies that produced different commodities that were considered for important for the world trade and to be supplied to their British owners of Great Britain. Different rules and legislations were passed to regulate the trade and supply of these commodities. It caused a sense of grief and dissatisfaction among the people of these colonies as a part of North American empire. It made them unite for their rights and share for the profits in trade. These collective approach and united strength of people led them to fight for their own independence that culminated the freedom of thirteen colonies in the year 1776.