Elect the president. I’m not sure of any others
Correct Matches:
a) Sir Francis Drake 1) the sea dog who plundered the treasure ships of the Spanish main
c) Humphrey Gilbert 2) adventurer who tried but failed to establish a colony in Newfoundland
b) Walter Raleigh 4) courtier whose colony at Roanoke Island was mysteriously abandoned in the 1580s
Answer:
Having to pay high duties on foreign sugar and molasses.
Explanation:
During the colonial era, especially from the mid-1700s, Britain began to carry out increasingly protectionist policies regarding its production, framed in the mercantilist concept of economic production. Mercantilism, in short, established that the wealth of a country is mediated in terms of its production of resources and its territorial extension, which allowed nations to accumulate wealth.
In this context, the British government began to prohibit its colonies from trading with other European nations (as this would benefit their economies), establishing commercial monopolies in the colonies, which implied a huge loss of rights on the part of the colonists, harming their economic and political freedoms.
Answer:
The eyewitness is the only person who saw the event.
Explanation:
