Purpose & Effects
Participants
Events
100

What is the economic motive for mercantilism? 

What is enrichment of the mother country?

100
Who initiated the Atlantic triangle trade?

What is the British Crown

100

What legislature enforced mercantilism in the British colonies? 

What are the Navigation Acts

200

What is a political motive of mercantilism? 

What is maximizing national power? 

200

What corporation facilitated British mercantilism and embodied mercantile policies? 


What is the East India Company? 

200

What is the practice of disregarding colonial holdings? 

What is salutary neglect? 

300

What was the primary impact of mercantilism in the American colonies? 

What is the American Revolution? 

300

Who is known for exploitation of natives for the purposes of mercantilism? 

Who are the Spaniards? 

300

What was the primary way colonists resisted mercantilist laws? 

What is smuggling? 

400

What was an important impact of mercantilist policies in the Spanish colonies? 

What is the eradication of native populations? 

400

What are goods that American colonies could only trade with Great Britain? 

What are enumerated goods? 

400

What caused the end of salutary neglect in the British Empire? 

What is the French and Indian War (Seven Years War)? 

500

What is current day mercantilism called? 

What is neomercantilism? 

500

What was created to oversee colonial affairs and tighten the enforcement of the navigation acts? 

What are the Lords of Trade? 

500

What legislature restricted colonial American trade with the French West Indies?

What is the Molasses Act

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