Question

How did mercantilism affect the american colonies?

Answer 1

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Mercantilism did, however, lead to the adoption of enormous trade restrictions, which stunted the growth and freedom of colonial business. In the 1660s, for example, England passed the Navigation Acts, a series of laws designed to make American colonies more dependent on manufactured products from Great Britain................................

Answer 2

or American Revolutionary War, (1775–83), insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain’s North Americancolonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and a large and influential segment of its North American colonies that was caused by British attempts to assert greater control over colonial affairs after having long adhered to a policy of salutary neglect. Until early in 1778 the conflict was a civil war within the British Empire, but afterward it became an international war as France (in 1778) and