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

The system of Mercantilism is a system of economic control that only benefits the mother country using the system for economic gain. The system works in two parts, first by only allowing the colonies to export raw materials to Britain weather the price is better somewhere else or not. Then in a second way by only allowing British made finished products to be purchased in the colonies. Laws were used to promote mercantilism by putting ridiculous tariffs on foreign goods making an expensive British product the cheapest. Benefits to this system really only come to Britain because it now had a constant source of raw materials and a place of sale for their finished goods. The Mercantile system had given the Britons a market for goods, but the system had hurt the colonies by leaving them penniless. The effects of the system on the colonies had left them with a severe shortage of money and forced colonists to begin trading with things such as butter, tar, pitch and other homemade goods. The system helped to set Britain and the colonies up for the revolution because of the selfishness of the British brutally hurting the colonists and only serving British commercial interests. In the end the Mercantile system became a step towards the revolutionary war. It served only British commercial interests and left the colonist angry and broke, as well as other nations angry because of their inability to trade with the resource rich colonies. The system of Mercantilism is a system of economic control that only benefits the mother country using the system for economic gain.