SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Great Britain passed the Navigation Acts to make a profit from the slave trade.
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Great Britain controlled colonial trade to secure profits and markets for British goods.
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Great Britain smuggled colonial goods out of the colonies to avoid paying colonial taxes.
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Great Britain determined what cash crops would be allowed on colonial plantations.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Britain used mercantilism as a way to secure its interests in the New World. Raw materials were shipped back to England where they were converted to finished goods. These products were then shipped back to the colonies as exports, which the colonists purchased.
Detailed explanation-2: -The British put restrictions on how their colonies spent their money so that they could control their economies. They put limits on what goods the colonies could produce, whose ships they could use, and most importantly, with whom they could trade.
Detailed explanation-3: -The colonies played an essential role in the British mercantilist system through the Navigation Acts of 1651. These series of laws required the colonists to carry the products and materials they had produced in America back to England and required them to import European goods only from England.
Detailed explanation-4: -expanded production; and increased production enlarged English commerce. The resulting trade was more susceptible to control by the state than a comparable trade with foreign countries would have been. For this reason, the colonial land system may be regarded as an ex-pression of mercantilist policy.
Detailed explanation-5: -The mercantilists reasoned that even wars were worth the price, because each colony would be a help to its conqueror. England needed raw materials that her colonies could supply. Lumber, wool, iron, cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo were among the products needed in England.