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Mercantilism guided the British to view the New World as a place filled with raw materials. They expected the American colonies to serve their mother country by collecting these materials and giving/trading it with it's mother country as well as it's sister countries.

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Q: How did the principles of mercantilism guide british policy toward the American colonies?
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