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The main idea behind mercantilism is that you want more exports than imports (more money coming into your country than going out of your country).

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What laws requiring a tax be paid on imported good?

the navigations act of 1651


Why did grenville propose the sugar act the quartering act and the stamp act?

to support there army with the money from the taxes


How would have the Colonies been different if Free Enterprise and not mercantilism was the economy before the revolution?

If enterprise system was used before the revolution in the colonies then colonies would exist today mercantilism stated colonies only existed for the better of the mother country and because of that came the sugar act hat act and ect. therefore leaving them with no profit and barely able to support their families and on top of that they had to take care of English troops who live in their homes


Which laws passed by Parliament stated that all colonial trade had to be done by British merchants and carried on British ships?

navigations act


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Mercantilism requires that the colonies exclusively trade with the metropole in order to provide it the economic advantage of being the sole source of finished goods for the colonies. The Navigation Acts prevented the colonists from going to foreign ports or have foreign ships dock for trading in colonial ports in order to preserve the exclusivity required by the mercantilist system.


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What did colonist complain that Parliament did?

1. Parliament prevented westward movement through the Proclamation of 1763. 2. Parliament restricted trade through the Navigations Acts, which was the codification of mercantilism. 3. Parliament passed the Stamp act to pay for British troops stationed in the Americas. 4. It passed the Townsend duties, which included the tea tax. All other Acts of Parliament were in response to American Actions, such as the Boston Tea Party.


How did colonists get around the navigations act?

Some colonists resorted to smuggling in order to get around the Navigation Acts. They were a series of acts that restricted foreign shipping for trade between the colonies and England.


What is the Wagner Act?

The Wagner Act gave labor unions government support. It created a system to arbitrate disputes between unions and employers.


Laws calling for a tax on imported goods is called?

Townshend Acts when refering to American History around the time of the American Revolution


What US laws support collective bargaining?

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The navigation acts were part of what british policy?

The Navigation Act caused many conflicts in the American colonies which led to the repeal of the Acts in 1849.