Diego&America

Mercantilism means that people were allowed to develop thier own business with the kings or queens owning them.
 * Mercantilism**

The colonist felt like they were being exploited through trade by Britian they were only allowed to export raw goods to Britian and import finished products they wanted from Britian.
 * How did the British economic policy of Mercanilism affect the colonist?**

Some believe that the American revolution was an outgrowth of conflict between the colonies and England brought about by England's mercantilist policies. Mercantilism involved the using the power of the state throughout the economy to enrich the state. Therefore, a mercantilist economy is a managed economy.
 * Did it cause the American Revolution?**

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The colonist felt like they were being explioted through trade by Britian they were only allowed raw goods to britian and import finished products they wanted from Britian.

Throught the colonial period, which is after the middle century, one great source of irritation betweent the mother country and her colonies was found in the Navigation acts. The purpose of this act was to protect the English's shipping, and to secure the profit to a home from the colonies. During the time that King Richard the II, steps had been taken to protect shipping, but not before the year of 1651 were there any British statues that seriously held back colonial trade. The Long Parliament in 1642 freed New England shipping and cargo being brought in from all duties, and a few years after all of the goods that were carried to the southern colonies in the English vessels were put on the free list. However, in 1651 while Cromwell ruled England, the first Navigation Acts were passed. The cheif's provisions were, that no goods that were grown or manufactured in Asia or America could be tansported to England except in English vessels; and the goods of any eurpopean country shipped into england must be brought by english vessles or in the vessel of the country they came from. The law was directed against the Dutch Martime trade which worked very well at that time. but it was nowhere enforced and in New England, scarley at all. Other than these laws there were two other laws, but they all belonged to the same system, which tended to mess with the development of the colonies; the corn laws and the ther laws that were against manufacturing. the corn laws in the interest of the British farnier, whch begun at about 1666, which parctically shot out from england grain and raised in the colonies. This drove New england and New York to manufacturing. The most harshest law of England's laws in the surression of colonial trade wa the Molasses Act of 1733. By this act prohibited duties were placed on molasses and sugar from the French West. But the colonist were not great examples of non-smuglers. it was estimated that 4,000 people in Great Britian were engaged in smuggling. the illegal imports of French silks and Indian tea, anbd the like exceeded legall shipping. On the other side, the British policy was unfortunate for the British interests; it served to the aliente the colonist little by little. they were being prepared for the final break for the mother of their land; Lecky. one of the ablest of the british Historians said, "The deliberate selfishness of the English comercial ligislation was a digging chasm between the mother of the country and her colonist,"
 * What were the Navigation Acts and how did it help Mercantilism?**

How did Salturary Neglect help the development of free enterprise? Salturary Neglect: was an undocumented, though long-standing, British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain. Prime Minister Robelart Walpole stated that "If no restrictions are placed on the colonies, they would grow. This policy, which lasted from about 1607 to 1763, allowed the enforcement of trade relations laws to be tolerant. Walpole did not believe in enforcing the Navigation Acts, established under Oliver Cromwell and Charles II and designed to force the colonists to trade only with England, Scotland and Ireland,which were also under Britain's control. Successive British governments ended this policy through acts such as the Stamp Act and Sugar Act, causing tensions within the colonies. Salutary neglect occurred in three time periods. From 1607 to 1696, England had no coherent imperial policy. From 1696 to 1763, England (and after 1707 the Kingdom of Great Britain) tried to form a coherent policy through the Navigation acts but did not enforce it. Lastly, from 1763 to 1775 Britain began to try to use a coherent policy driven in part through the outcome of the Seven Years War in which Britain had gained large swathes of new territory in North America at the Peace of Paris in 1763. Successive British government passed a number of acts designed to regulate their American colonies including the Stamp Act and Quebec Act. Salutary neglect was a large contributing factor that led to the American Revolutionary War. Since the imperial authority did not assert the power that it had, the colonists were left to govern themselves. These essentially sovereign colonies soon became accustomed to the idea of self-control. The effects of such prolonged isolation eventually resulted in the emergence of a collective identity that considered itself separate from Great Britain. The term "salutary neglect" arises from Edmund Burke's 'Speech for the Conciliation with the Colonies' given in the House of Commons March 22, 1775 Information found on: []