https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6 en-us 2020-08-28 15:13:16 UTC 2025-12-25 14:12:20 UTC hello@padlet.com jenningsgn22 https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705203242 Mercantilism and salutary neglect shaped the American colonies to resent their parent countries and it allowed them to smuggle. Mercantilism was a system of trade that advocated for the creation of colonies for benefit of their parent countries through maximizing exports and minimizing imports. Salutary neglect was the practice of not enforcing laws as strict as they were meant to be. It was done to try and keep the colonies obedient and not to want to rebel. This led to business between the the colonies and foreign powers. It also gave them a little taste of independence which would make the Americans want real independence.]]> 2020-08-28 15:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705203242 jenningsgn22 https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705204136 As the British government became stricter with their policies, the colonists had become accustomed to governing themselves and started to yearn for independence. This conflict was a major motive for the American Revolution and the split between Britain and the colonies. ]]> 2020-08-28 15:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705204136 jenningsgn22 https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705204799 These policies were an attempt to constrict economic opportunities, such as the Navigation Act which cut off the colonies from trading with any country other than England. Yet being so far away these acts were hard to enforce, and the colonists often smuggled in goods from the Dutch and French West Indies, which turned out to be very prosperous.]]> 2020-08-28 15:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705204799 jenningsgn22 https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705205719 The colonies were different than other in the British empire because one, they were in the Americas unlike the others. They also were the only colonies with their own specific set of acts for the colonies and their main attention was on the colonies in the Americas. The English government implemented plenty of mercantilist policies, for example the navigation acts. This meant people from New England had little to no pay as England bought their supplies for almost nothing and forced them to buy their good for high prices. As a result New England  decided to smuggle some of these goods from other countries like the French and the Dutch. ( Domination of New England When James II became the king of England, more taxes, took away people’s lands, more English officials were placed in the colonies and implemented harsher policies for trade)]]> 2020-08-28 15:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705205719 jenningsgn22 https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705208519 Mercantilism in a way led to the start of the triangular trade around the Atlantic Ocean involving the the continents of Africa, Europe, and North America. Mercantilism involved the colonies in the Americas to only sell their raw materials to their mother country, in this case Great Britain. Great Britain would then trade these finished good to other countries, some being in Europe, Africa or in the Americas. The labor needed for growing these goods involved many people which caused the Africans to trade enslaved people to the Americas for labor. This system of trade was the start of the Triangular trade among these continents.  ]]> 2020-08-28 15:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsgn22/uf1yh8sgguxwhfw6/wish/705208519