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<span>Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British
officials found it difficult to enforce laws regulating trade restrictions in the American colonies. Smuggling was commonplace.</span><span>
<span>Oliver Cromwell ended the tradition of Puritanism in favor of mercantilism,
a political and economic policy in which government
takes control of all economic activities. Key industries were taxed, and new laws were created to
increase Britain's colonial revenues.</span></span>
National laws are further enforced
