Answer:
B. sold back to the American colonists.
Explanation:
Mercantilism under the British involves the colonists to bring raw materials in large quantities to England to convert or refine into final products. In return, these refined products would then be sold back to the American colonists through exportation. This is based on the belief that raw materials are cheaper or brings lower revenue to the nations, while refined products brings more economic value to the nations. Also the American colonies serves as a ready made export market for England.
Although Locke and Rousseau wrote prominent treatises on the social contract, Thomas Hobbes introduced the idea of it. He argued that human beings were evil in nature, and thus needed to enter a contract in which everyone basically agreed not to kill each other (i.e. in his natural state, although completely free, man would always be wary of subjected to another man's brutishness. Whereas in society we are all supposedly better off-even if there are sacrifices involved-because there is an agreement binding each man into behavior that's meant to contain man's evil nature).
