HST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Olaudah Equiano, Triangular Trade, Atlantic World
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A process in which americans began to think of themselves as less american and acted more and more english. The wealthy americans sent their sons off to be educated in. Britain, proper british etiquette and behavior were employed and the latest fashions from london and other luxuries were imported. Even homes were modeled on british town houses and country estates. Many of the wealthy ended un deep in debt due to trying to become more english and maintain a high standard of life. The formation of an interdependence between the european empires due to the flow of people, ideas and goods across the atlantic. Sugar and tobacco went to eastern europe from america, london bankers paid for slave trade from africa, and spain used gold and silver to import goods from elsewhere. In the west indies, rum was made and went to the indians and colonists and the navigation acts were fairly relaxed.
