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After the French and Indian War Britain tighten up its hold on its counterparts in America. Britain came up with the system of mercantilism to keep that hold. Mercantilism made it so that the colonists could only trade with Britain and that they had to get manufactured goods from England. They wanted the colonists not to think about self-government at all. The system of mercantilism was good, bad, and was either sustainable or not.

The good thing about mercantilism for the colonists is that London paid liberal amounts of money or goods to colonial producers of ship parts and other furnished materials. Britain offered the protection of the world's finest navy and army when the colonists continued to trade specifically with them. The American tobacco colonies became so popular that they snuffed out the british tobacco company. When Britain passed the Navigation Law of 1650 they did not enforce it so much in the beginning because the colonists were being cooperative.

The negative things about mercantilism is that it made the colonists way more dependent on Britain than they wanted to be. When England got the colonist's exports they traded back to them something that they made completely, instead of actually using money to buy it with them. So this made the colonists have hardly any money lying around. When the Navigation Law later on was more enforced the colonists started to find other ways to trade with other foreign companies. People found a way to smuggle things like tobacco and sugar to other companies, other than England, and make money off of them or get other goods that England might not make. With trading raw materials to Britain, certain skills weren't used,so people had to find a way to make money or trade with people to get certain things.

With all the information provided it seems that the colonists would most likely revolt. If they trade more and more with Britain then there would scarcely be any money increase, because they only traded with credit. Also, some stores or people didn't have credit so they customers would have to pay money. Later in the use of mercantilism the colonists might think that they have become too dependent on Britain, and Britain really wanted to control the colonies; so they would ultimately battle with each other. When the Navigation Law passed Britain started to tariff all the goods that came to its ports before they went to the colonies. The colonists were angered that the british got some money for it and that they weren't allowed to trade with anyone else.

Among Britain's mercantilism came the benefits of having to trade with your own country and having the protection of it against any outside force. But along with that came the unhelpful effects such as: becoming dependent on another country, almost no money increase, and smuggling. The bad things outweighed the benefits of the system so it eventually led to a revolt of the system. Britain went all wrong in trying to control the colonies and the people in them, not seeing that the colonies were going to become a separated nation regardless. The mercantilism had its good advantages, bad advantages, but it ended up to be unsustainable.