THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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limited trade restrictions, location, territorial expansion
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limited trade restrictions, location, alliance with France
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high trade restrictions, low national debt, mercantilism
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high trade restrictions, control of slave trade, territorial expansion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why Did Britain Rise to Global Power in the 1700s? 1) Location placed England in a position to control trade during the Renaissance. 2) In the 1700s, Britain was usually on the winning side in European conflicts. 3) England had developed a powerful navy, which could protect its growing empire and trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -Attitudes toward business and commerce contributed to Britain’s rise to global power because uprisings led to increased repression. Unions brought economic advantages, such as larger market for farmers. It also led to favorable climate.
Detailed explanation-3: -With an empire that was constantly expanding, Great Britain needed a strong and effective system of government. On the eve of the American Revolution, this system was a constitutional monarchy, in which both a monarch-in this case a king-and a legislative body, or Parliament, jointly managed the Empire.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did mercantilism contribute to the causes of the American Revolution? mercantilism contributed to the causes of the American Revolution b/c it showed that the colonists knew they could manage their own affairs. They wanted to trade on their own.