1. Mercantilism Overview

2. Export
Raw materials or finished
products that the colonists
traded or sold to other
countries

3. Import
All the products brought
into the colonies

4. Activity #1
 Look at the list of “Suft Imported from London”.
This is an actual list of items that were in Mr.
Greenhow’s store in Williamsburg, Virginia.
 On your Google Doc, make a list of necessities and
luxury items from the items on the lists on the next
slides.

5. Instructions
 Create your own Google Doc by going into
Documents/Drive and click on the red create.
 When the menu appears, choose document.
 Remember to click on “Untitled Document” and
name your document Mercantilism Activity.
 Begin the document by answering this question: 1.
Which items on the list would you consider to be
luxury items? 2. Which items on the list would you
consider to be necessities?

6.  White calico  Blankets  anemoni
 Irish Linens  Fashionable mens and boys hats  fine large hyacinths
 Blue Cotton  Low priced hats  double polyanthus narcissus
 Red Ditto  Fine night caps  crocus, blue and yellow
 Stuffs of different kinds for women’s gowns  Feathers for Ladies Hats  best London calf leather
 Cruels and Marking Canvas  Blue feathers  leather of all kinds
 Handkerchiefs, blue  White feathers  pigtail and cut tobacco
 Handkerchiefs, red  Ostrich feathers  plain combs of all sorts
 Blankets of all sorts and sizes  Latest fashion aprons, plain  horn combs
 Wool cloaks  Ditto, checked  plain fans
 Ready made shirts  A very complete assortment of caps in the  all sorts of wedding fans
newest taste
 Fine mens stockings, blue  mortars and pestles
 Steel scissors
 Ditto, brown  elegent snuff boxes
 Scissor snuffers
 Ditto, red  House bells
 Raisins of the sun
 Ditto, white  Candlesticks
 All sorts of spiceries
 Haberdashery  Brass desk furniture
 A considerable assortment of flower roots
 Single and double bed
 Mixed tulip roots

7.  Candles, dipped  Tinware  Bowls of all sizes
 Ditto, mould  Coffee – pots  Coffee
 Myrtle wax  Lanterns  Seeds
 Toys of various sorts  Mugs  Globe amaranth, viola tricolor and dianthus
 Dice and boxes  Tinder boxes  Caraway, dill, fennel marjoram, basil, savory
 Undressed dolls  Iron kettles  Spice boxes
 Dressed dolls  Iron backs and dogs  Split pease
 Babies of all prices  Polishing powders  Laces of all kinds
 Variety of queen’s china for children, sets  Silversmiths casting sand  Livery lace
complete
 Great variety of glass, tin and stoneware  Variety of figured ribands
 Whistles for children
 Crates of earthenware  Variety of plain ditto
 Instructions for the tin whistle
 All sorts of china ware  Trimming for ladies gowns
 Small and large tin funnels
 Large, noble and rich chinese bowls  Shirt and waist coat buttons
 Wooden handled knives
 Delft wares of most sorts  Gilt and several other forts of
 Empty canisters
 China tea cups and saucers
 Woodenware
 Stoneware sauce boats
 Hard metal plates and dishes
 Mugs

8.  fashionable buttons  white sugar candy  Inkstands
 A very fancy assortment of paper boxes  black pepper, ginger, fennel  Dutch quills
 Baskets  almonds  Sealing wax
 Wool cards  pontefract cakes  Seals of all kinds
 Smoothing irons  fine chocolate  Fishing hooks
 Milliners common needles  candied almonds licorice  Powder flasks
 Fine needles and pins  blank books unruled of all sizes  Borax
 Needle cases  memorandum books  Brooms
 Silver thimbles  a variety of children’s books  Most sorts of nails
 Superfine hyson, Darjeeling, and oolong teas  various other books and stationary  Pumice and rotten stone
 Genuine fresh drugs  slates and pencils  Emory
 Sugar refined  paper of all sorts and sizes  Files of all sorts and sizes
 Cinnamon, cloves, and nutmegs  fine prints by Bowles  Chisels
 Figs  Fine prints by Hogarth  Pewter, all kinds
 confectionary of all sorts  Playing cards  Hardward, large assortment
 mixed sweetmeats  Ink-powder  Tin sheats
 brown sugar candy  Pencils  Wire

9.  Pewter plates, dishes, basons and spoons of hard and common metal  Window glass of all sizes
 Oats  All sorts of cast iron
 Coarse salt in bags  Iron of all kinds
 Flour  Trivets
 Few cafes of preserved fruits  Shutter dogs
 Rice  Hooks
 Pickling jars of all sorts for family use  Pipe kilns
 Sponges  Skewer racks and skewers
 Glass bottles  Coopers, carpenters, smiths and masons tools of all kinds
 Bottle corks  Most sorts of materials for tradesmen and many hundred other useful
articles
 Wash balls
 Soap
 Best painted floor cloths
 Tools of almost every occupation
 Garden tools
 Wooden garden rakes
 Bird bottles

11. Instructions – Cont’d
 Answer these questions on your Google Doc,
 3. Why do the colonists need these items (the
imported items)?
 4. Why do they need to purchase these items from
England instead of making them themselves?
 5. Who is the balance of trade in favor of: England or
the Colonies?

12. Mercantilism
 The economic system that prevailed in Europe in
16th and 17th century and stressed government
regulation of the economy, profit from foreign trade
the founding of colonies and trade monopolies
 Answer this question on your Google Document:
 6. What effect do you think this policy had on the
colonies?
 When finished, share the document with me.

13. When finished,
 Go to your Google Docs and
open the Colonial Life
document and follow the
instructions.