c. they would be able to grow their businesses and profit from them without government limitations.
Explanation:
This is the answer that most accurately expresses a benefit of capitalism over mercantilism. Both capitalism and mercantilism can have government limitations. However, the limitations of mercantilism are usually stricter, as the emphasis is placed in keeping a country's capital within that country. On the other hand, capitalism allows for free enterprise and more active trade.
Capitalism promotes free trade and free market while mercantilism limits the trade between countries so that more money is entering the country than out. Merchants will have a larger selection of what to sell under capitalism and unregulated sales.
The territorial expansion of the US and the question of whether or not slavery would be allowed in the new territories was perhaps the single greatest factor leading up to the war, since before expansion, slavery was mostly confined to the South.
