Bianca&Kayla

**QUESTION: HOW DID THE BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY OF MERCANTILLISM AFFECT THE COLONISTS?**
====**ANSWER: In keeping with the general policy of mercantilism, England encouraged the colonists to specialize in the production of raw materials. This provided the British with a profitable market, free from competition.-WWW.GOOGLE.COM**==== ====**WHAT I THINK: I think that the follwing answer means that** the british are trying to influence the colonists to do what they do in England.To make sure they have the same type of econmy.-www.wikipedia.com ====

**WHAT I THINK: I the think the follwing the defintion means that the government controls what to trade,and the economcy.**

 * __Did it cause the American Revolution?__**
 * The American Revolution began in 1775 as open conflict between the united [|thirteen colonies] and Great Britain. By the [|Treaty of Paris] that ended the war in 1783, the colonies had won their independence. While no one event can be pointed to as the actual cause of the revolution, the war began as a disagreement over the way in which Great Britain treated the colonies versus the way the colonies felt they should be treated. Americans felt they deserved all the rights of Englishmen. The British, on the other hand, felt that the colonies were created to be used in the way that best suited the crown and parliament. This conflict is embodied in one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation. -About.com**


 * I think that the British Economic policy gave the coloniest there independent from the mercantilism. The colonist felt they should be treated the way they wanted to instead of having Great Britian control them. So America went at war with Britian to gain indepdence for the thirteen colonies. When America and Great Britian went to war America won and the thirteen colonies got there independce and have the freedom to do what they want when they want.**

**__Did non-enforcement of this policy help the development of Free Enterprise?__**
**English laws in the 17th – 18th centuries that required the use of English or colonial ships to carry English trade. The laws were designed to encourage English shipbuilding and restrict trade competition from England's commercial rivals, especially the Dutch. The acts of the 18th century gradually restricted trade by the American colonies and contributed to growing colonial resentment with the imposition of additional duties on sugar, tobacco, and molasses. -www.google.com** ====**I think that the non-enforcement did help the Free Enterprise because they got to do what they want because of there independece, so they kept doing the Free Enterprise because they liked the trade.**==== 

====‍ **The Salutary Neglect hleped because it allowed more trading laws with with helped the Free Enterprise because the Free Enterprise was a trading policy.** ====              