"And whereas great Quantities of the like Manufactures have of late been made and are daily increasing in the Kingdom of Ireland
and in the English Plantations in America and are exported from thence to Forreigne Marketts heretofore supplyed from England which will inevitably sink the Value of Lands and tend to the ruine of the Trade and the Woollen Manufactures of this Realme ... Be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same: That no Person or Persons ... shall directly or indirectly export ... out of or from the said Kingdom of Ireland into any Forreigne Realme States or Dominions ... other than the Parts within the Kingdom of England."—Wool Act, 1699 In response to wanting to raise tax revenue on its exports and increase control over the colonies, the British Parliament
A.criminalized the rampant piracy in the Atlantic
B.enacted mercantilist practices
C.limited slave trade between Africa and the colonies
D.revised the taxation standards
Scottish-born Andrew Carnegie<span> (1835-1919) was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the </span>steel industry<span> then became a major philanthropist.</span><span>
He gained control because he had the power to take over smaller railroad companies.</span>
