African Americans.
Many former slaves.
<em>Why did King George III strictly enforce the Navigation Acts?</em>
A) Britain wanted to expand trade and needed more resources from the colonies..
<em>Britain was losing money in trade with the colonies. Britain wanted to expand trade and needed more resources from the colonies. Britain wanted the colonies to pay for part of the cost of the French and Indian War. George II wanted to show the colonies his power.</em><em>European nations during the 17th- and 18th-centuries believed in the economic theory of mercantilism. In a mercantilist system, there is believed to be a limited amount of wealth in the world. One nation's gain was another's loss. Thus, monarchs sought to tightly control trade within their colonies.</em>
Often, the conditions that children and workers worked in were unsafe and they worked long hours with no rest. they worked all day. sometimes they would get stuck in machinery and get hurt or even die. also, working in factories caused health problems for many children and workers.
