Mercantilism
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- Created on: 17-10-15 14:07
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- Mercantilism
- Shipping
- All goods going to and from the colonies had to be carried by ships owned by England and the colonies
- This gave advantage to the English shipbuilding industry
- Crews of ships
- Ships were manned by predominantly English crews
- Left fewer jobs available for the colonists etc.
- Enumerated commodities
- Sugar, cotton etc. from the colonies had to be exported to England; even if they were headed elsewhere
- Restricted the colonists in where they could ship their goods
- Meant those in England could make more profit out of the imported goods
- Goods imported to America from outside of Britain
- Goods had to be sent to England and reshipped to America
- Enabled more money to be made by the British
- Woollen Act 1699
- Forbid the export of woollen goods outside of the colonies that they were produced in
- Limited how much money could be made by the colonists from woollen items
- Hat Act 1732
- Banned the export of colonial beaver hats
- Protected taxes for sale in other countries
- Molaasses Act 1733
- Put a tax of six pense per gallon of imported molasses
- Benefitted Britain (made more money)
- Shipping
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