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The Colonial Economy Questions and Answers

What was the impact of mercantilism on the European colonization of North America?

What is the historical significance of primogeniture in the American colonies?

What is salutary neglect, and how did it affect the colonies?

How did mercantilism affect the colonial economy?

What was the Navigation Act of 1763?

Why did the colonists resent mercantilism so much? 

What was the American colonists' role in British mercantilism?

How did the Navigation Act of 1660 affect the colonies?

Who benefits the most from mercantilism?

How did the navigation acts help the colonies?

How did the series of navigation acts affect the colonies?

Did the colonies benefit from mercantilism?

Why was salutary neglect important?  

What was the goal of mercantilism after the 1600s?

Describe the differences and similarities between the societies and economies of the southern, middle, and New England colonies.

What were the colonists' reaction to the Navigation Acts?

What was the British policy of salutary neglect? Why did the British follow this policy? What consequences did it have to the British colonies in North America?

How did loyalists react to the Navigation Acts?

How was the British policy of salutary neglect good for both the British King and the American colonies?

Did the American colonial economy benefit or suffer from the British mercantilist colonial system?

How did colonists view the trade laws that England set?

In what ways did the Navigation Acts affect trade in the colonies?

How did the colonies benefit from salutary neglect?

What were the effects of mercantilism during colonial times?

In what ways did the British end salutary neglect?

In what sense was the colonial economy and society "maturing" during the eighteenth century?

How profitable were the Thirteen Colonies?

What role did the Navigation Acts play in Great Britain's mercantilist policies toward the American colonies?

Why did the British allow salutary neglect?

How did the colonists generally feel about the salutary neglect?

Explain the goal of England's mercantilist policy.

What were some of the major resources of wealth and industry in the original Thirteen Colonies?

During the Revolutionary Era (around 1754 and the Albany Congress), what was the economy or businesses like in the colonies?

Which of the following actions would have been legal under the Navigation Acts?

What is mercantilism in the colonies?

What kind of policy did England replace salutary neglect with?

How did America benefit from mercantilism?

What role did businesspeople play in colonial America?

How did the Navigation Acts intend to increase control over colonial economies?

What were Britain's mercantile policies in its 13 colonies?

How did the Navigation Acts impact the English American Colonists?

What did the New Netherlands' economy consist of?