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The economy of a country plays an important role in how well the country will do. The Mercantilism system is one example of an economy. It has its good and bad sides just like anything else. Mercantilism works for a short while before it becomes unsustainable and the colonies of the mother country riot out of it.   Mercantilism has its good side wedged into it. The good side is more in favor of the mother country but it also benefits the colonies in a few ways. The mother country is supplied raw materials and it exports its finished goods to the colonies. The colonies have the advantage of selling in a monopoly. The colonies, since bound to the mother country, are given protection from outside forces. The mother country would have an easier time building an army than the dependent colonies. The colonies are looked at more as tenants. They are to harvest the raw materials for the mother country.    On the other side of things, there is the negative side. The colonies are shipping all their raw materials to one country. If they want to send it else where, it has to go through the mother country first. They can only buy from the mother country too. This creates another monopoly for the mother country. A problem that the Mercantilism system is that there is more coming into the colonies than there was going out so there is a money shortage. The merchants are giving colonists credit and not money. So when the colonists go to pay for something within the colonies, they had to pay using another currency. That currency could be butter, nails, and etcetera.    No, the Mercantilism is not a sustainable economy, the colonies will revolt and rebel against the mother country. It is not a maintainable system if you take the relationship between Great Britain and the American colonies. One way it did not work was because of the Navigation Laws. These laws only allowed Americans to ship and buy from America. Everything had to go through Britain so that the merchants could get their cut of the deal. So Americans resorted to smuggling which made some men very wealthy. Another act that cracked the system was the Sugar Act. This act put a tax on all incoming sugar. This made the colonies furious. The Townshend Acts put a tax on everything. The Americans thought that they were being taxed without representation.