America is Economy History
Sam Shin (Dongchan Shin)
America economy
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the extreme Northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major cities include New York, a global finance and culture center, and Washington, DC, the capital, both on the Atlantic Coast; Los Angeles, famed for filmmaking, on the Pacific Coast; and the Midwestern metropolis Chicago.
Triangular trade (16th-19th)
The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British North.
Columbian exchange (Aug 3rd, 1492)
The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life.
Stock Market (1953)
NYSE MKT LLC, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), is an American stock exchange situated in New York City, New York. AMEX was previously a mutual organization, owned by its members. Until 1953, it was known as the New York Curb Exchange.
Africa
When Triangle Trade strarted, Portugal and Spain's soilders came and kidnapped Africans and sold them in Jamestown for money as a slave for them to take to Europe.
Virginia Jamestown
Virginia Jamestown is the first town to be built and the first to use African slaves and the main of Tiriangle Trade.
Portugal and Spain
Portugal and Spain were the main in selling Africans as slaves and they were powerful countries and continuesly traded African slaves in the triangle trade.
(They kidnap Africans in Africa, then they go to Jamestown to sell them for other materials. )