Ema+A.&Mariyah

Question: What were the Navigation Acts and how did it help Mercantilism?

Answer: For the first 150 years after the settlement at Plymouth, in Massachusetts, English control over the colonies was very little. With all her involvement with European nations in wars of conquest, little energy or time was available to dictate the colonis' economic options. Three thousand miles of ocean made it difficult to monitor such a policy. Nevertheless, as the colonies grew and became more successful, the English realized that the colonies could provide increased trade, if competition could be eliminated. Americans had established profitable trade with other countries, mainly the Dutch. In order to increase her wealth, Britain tightened the economic noose around the neck of the colonies by inforcing regulatory policies, there for changing in degree her relationship with the colonies.

Question: How did the Salutary Neglect help the development of Free Enterprise?

Answer: It helped because the laws of Salutary Neglect were more lenient than others there for allowing most trade which helped the Free Enterprise.

Question: Why did Britian attempt to enforce Mercantilism and other economic policies in the thirteen colonies following the French and Indian War?

Answer: Some argue that the rise of free trade highly reflected Britain's economic position and was unconnected with any true philosophical conviction. Despite the earlier loss of 13 of Britain's North American colonies, the final defeat in Europe of Napoleonic France in 1815 left Britain the most successful international power.

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