Well, mercantilism is when the colony is only made to support the mother country. In this scenario, the mother country is Great Britain and they are benefiting off of the colonies in America. America doesn’t want to only benefit England, but they want to be independent. That was tension enough.
It was a oil-exporting nation and it lost too much of an important resource, thus crippling the economy.
The correct answer for this question is Triple Entente.
The seas surrounding Europe were controlled by Triple Entente. This is an informal treaty between Great Britain, France, and Russia. It was anchored on the Franco-Russian military alliance (1894), Anglo-French entente<span> (1904), and an Anglo-Russian </span>entente<span> (1907). </span>