marcantilism+a&c

Mercantilism, which the British used to have more power over the colonies. Yes, it was cruel but in ways the British thought of it as a normal thing to do. In this essay you will learn how mercantilism became to be, how the colonies took it and if the mercantilism would stay throughout the years. Mercantilism was good and bad throughout the colonies, it had a lot of meaning in the colonies. On the other side the British or Mercantilists believed that wealth was power and the countries wealth. Mercantilism supplied raw materials to the mother country, which could be taken good, it also supplied or provided a good market for the exports. The Americans were looked at as tenants, they had to furnish products needed in the mother country such as : tobacco, sugar, and ships' masts. That thought was not as good it was leaning towards the bad thing about mercantilism. Some of the colonist did take it well because they knew that they had a buyer, which was England, some of course didn't which caused some problems. plus there was taxation in which involved in mercantilism, because on every purchase there would be a tax that you would have to pay in. This was called the stamp tax, it would tax important documents and other raw materials in which included the items from mercantilism. Now that was the problem that made the colonist mad, they were angry that they had to pay their items with adding additional taxation to it. The tea, which was taxed or priced extremely high, that colonist drank almost three times a day were very upset with the parliament. S o there was some good and bad to the mercantilism but most of them were bad to the colonist. The mercantilism would be revolted, because of the colonist that hated it extremely, would probably try to vote it off or make it more reasonable for the colonist. It also didn't seem do to so well in England, meaning it went well for British people but not so hot for the colonists. So that's why it would be revolted in the future.