Mercantilism In The New Colonies

It is evident that the drive to colonize this new nation had chiefly been for economic purposes and the fact that the European continent was becoming overpopulated. The New World had been discovered by explorers who wanted to locate a new route to India so that trade could be better established. However, once what is now known as the United States was founded, there were more opportunities for a variety of things, including slave labor, colonization, entrepreneurship, and even an escape from religious persecution and the social and political system of Europe. As a result of this drive for change, the European people aggressively came to America so that they could make changes, and this would be on behalf of the Native American people who already claimed the land.

The Northern Colonies as an Empire of Goods” by T.H. Breen deals with how the economic developments of the 1740s affected the economic relationship between the colonies and Great Britain. Basically merchants started to arrive along with new supplies which led to the colonists to depend on the British. In the beginning they refused to have to go to the merchants so, whenever they were in need of any goods, they would go knocking on their neighbor’s door. The merchants were the last resort. This introduced them to what was almost the opposite of the lineal family. Once the population in the their area started to rise , many picked up and traveled towards west. At this point in time, the British importations increased tremendously.

The purpose of mercantilism was to increase power, wealth and self sufficiency for the mother countries. England, Spain and france would often compete with each other to gain colonies in regions such as North America, South America, Asia, and Africa. Raw materials such as lumber, wool, iron, cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo were what England needed to be able to create manufactured goods. However, mercantilism in the American colonies were more dependent on the manufactured products of England. The Navigation Acts that were a series of laws were enforced by England so that they could make the American colonies more dependent on the manufactured goods of England.The American colonists were expected to buy manufactured goods like cloth, furniture,knives,

The New England colonists did not come to the New World in search for a quick fortune. They came for the sole purpose of creating a model society for other settlers who sought a new life. They believed in creating a prosperous society rather than a few wealthy individuals (DOC A).

Mercantilist ideas emphasized that nations should strive toward economic self-sufficiency and that the power of a nation should be measured by the amount of its gold and silver reserves. Ultimately, a nation should arrange to produce everything it needed for its own citizens and sell surpluses to for hard currency. This metal reserve, in turn, could be used in emergency situations to pay for wars or solve shortages. Colonies, like those England had in North America, played an important part in this economic equation. They could help England become self-sufficient by producing things that could not be made or grown there such as tobacco, sugar, and tall masts for ships. Colonists could also provide a market for British goods, particularly manufactured products, such as woolen cloth or beaver hats. This meant that the home economy in England could become more fully developed, while the colonial economies were relegated to a role of supplying raw materials.

Due to the growing economic activity in the colonies both locally and amongst each other as well as all of the external trade, the local and colonial

The colonisation of North America by the Europeans became one of the most crucial points for the native North Americans. The differing experiences of contact between both cultures had overwhelmingly disastrous impacts on the normal way of life. From such contact arose the issue of land disputes, in turn resulting in massacres and frontier wars which could have otherwise been unnecessary. The factors stated above provide a suitable stimulus for a discussion in regards to the varying encounters of the Indigenous North Americans.

Colonists took benefits from the mercantile system, large sums for ship builders, colonial protection by British army

So first off, let's talk about Mercantilism. What is bad about it you may ask? Well lets see from a coloniest point of view. So the mother country gets rich, as the colonies do not. The colonists must sell basically all of their raw materials to the mother country for whatever price the Mother country decides (a cheap price). They must buy manufactured goods from the Mother country (at a high prices) so do you see what I mean.

The British had the idea of mercantilism where a the economys wealth was judged by how much gold and silver it had, the colonies supplied the mother land with materials and then the mother country produced products to sell back to the colonies

Climate I new England is cold and non fertile for plants to grow in any way. few farms could be made since how harsh the enviorment was. Most of the time the humidity of a state like newyork. This led to more uses of self resistance food made from that region for food. Corn , oatmeal , amd wheat were some knids of crop some farmers in the new England . This made farms in newengland more cherisable considering most of theres food had many benefits. Life was very harse and most civilians had low life expectancy considering the cold weather new England has also benefiting to malnutrition. Economics in new England were based on these conditions. Most of the food was made by fish and meat with out the good land , new England ports were created so that way ships from other regions could help bring food in new England thus increasing civilian help. This made new England much more industrial than the chesapeak reion its self. Chesapeaks own crops in a sad way were simplictic in a way. Tobacco made by the john smith allowed the effeciancy of rapidly growing this crop in a very good environment which allowed an exponential growth of crops based on tobacco. Labor was needed considering how simpiastic the economy was to gain cash, the use of indentured servent were created. This kind of economy is much more of a shallow way to gain money more like the government gets the benfit thatn the people them sleves.Life

From 1607 to 1754, people’s views on governing themselves changed greatly. It began in 1607, with the settlement of Jamestown. They were a corporate colony, working for the Virginia Company, they were whole-heartedly British. The Great Awakening, the Enlightenment, and the Tradition of Neglect all introduced new ways for the American colonies to think of themselves as more independent. Although they still considered themselves part of the British Empire, by the end of this era they had discovered that they could make their own laws and constitutions that fit the way that their world worked as opposed to Great Britain.

Mercantilism, before it was even adopted in the United States, was a very well known concept throughout the world. No matter where it was going on, colonies, as they’re called, are given duties and rules to obey as far as manufacturing, shipping, trading, producing, exporting, etc. goes, in order to enrich the mother country. In this case, the mother country, England, and it’s thirteen colonies overseas, were the newest to follow the concept of mercantilism. The colonies sole purpose was to provide resources and wealth to the mother country, so that it could be self sufficient. In the thirteen colonies that were then under English rule, things were sometimes taken a bit out of hand as far as political and economic development. England was

Few topics of the colonial era of North America generate as much debate as the conversion of labor in 17th century Virginia from English indentured servitude to one based primarily on African slaves. Historians have attempted to ascertain why Virginia tobacco planters determined that an economic system based on African slave labor was advantageous to the traditional servant system used up to that point, and why that change increased rapidly beginning in the 1670s. The significance of these years on American History justifies the level of historical debate and amount of scholarship written on this subject. The decision by a relatively small number of Virginia inhabitants to evolve their means of labor to one founded on forced emigration and servitude, would prove to have profound economic and social implications that have not completely been removed in today’s society, three centuries later. It ushered in a system, and an era, which will forever result in one of the darkest stains to the legacy of the United States of America.

Religion was a motive for colonization. Many religious groups came to America for different reasons, but one they all had in common was because of religious intolerance. The Pilgrims came to America and wanted to separate church and state. while on the other hand, the Puritans only wanted to reform the church. The Quakers left Europe because they wanted to spread their beliefs to the colonists that were in America. All of these people wanted to have