Evaluate+the+System+of+Mercantilism+and+determine+if+the+system+is+sutainable,+or+will+colonies+eventually+revolt+under+this+system?

  //__The British and Their Mercantilism System __//  //The British authorities used a system called mercantilism that helped them control the colonies. Mercantilism is that the American colonies had to provide the mother country with raw materials, the colonies could not make any furnished products in the colonies, then the had to go and buy the same products. This was suppose to give England more control over the colonies, but truly it made some colonist rebel more. There were many positive and negatives in the mercantilism system. In the end there was a big revolt. // // This system really benefited the Mother Country, Britain, because the only thing they had to do was build the furniture or cloths, or make what ever the colonists sent for them to make. It also provided a Guaranteed market for exports. There was one benefit that the colonies did, somewhat, receive and that they had some protection from the Mother Country; however there was really no one they needed to be protected against.

//// This system had many more negatives then positives, for the colonists. The colonists were not allowed to give there goods to anyone else besides Britain. They were not allowed to make anything of their own, such as, furniture, cloths, hats, even paint, nails and other things they needed to survive. Even though they were completely capable of doing is themselves, but Britain wanted to have complete control over the colonies. The colonies were taxed on tea, nails, paint, paper and many other things, so every penny they earned they most likely had to give it to Britain for the tax on the tea and such. When Britain put a tax on the tea the colonist were furious because the average person drank many cups of tea, at least 2 cups at each meal or more. //// The colonists were tired of all these, ridiculous, taxes. They began to revolt, or rebel, against Great Britain; by boycotting things from Britain, trading with France, Spain and the West Indies. This system never really stayed, it was never a really good system in the first place. Over the years, after the rebellion, it just slowing became less and less; and today we don't have it at all, which is a good thing. //