The Early American Economy
In the sixteenth century,settlers from England,a part of Britain, began to colonize North America.These colonies remained under British control until the American Revolution,which occurred at the end of the eighteenth century.The economic theory of mercantilism that was dominant from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century held that colonies should benefit the mother country by helping her become self-sufficient and wealthy.Beginning in the 1650s,the British Parliament passed a series of laws relating to the American colonies that were designed to advance those goals.Colonists were required to buy goods only from English merchants using English ships operated by English crews.The laws stated that certain products, such as tobacco,rice,and indigo,could be sold only in England and nowhere else.On the other hand,colonial agricultural products that competed with those produced by English farmers,such as wheat or meat,could not be sold in England.
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