They practiced polytheism. Their god RE controlled the sun which grew their crops.
It served as an early model for unification of the colonies and was influential during the drafting of the Articles of Confederation.
The Navigation Acts supported the system of mercantilism because it was a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and it's colonies. This helped mercantilism because it kept all the benefits from Britain and prohibited gold and silver from being lost out of the empire of Great Britain.
Large companies took over the mining because Congress passed laws granting underground mining rights to certain companies.
Explanation:
US was in the middle of a gold and oil rush as a lot of resources were discovered on the US sol by industrialist who moved into the towns and built big industries around the mines and mined the resources.
This became a hegemony of big companies because the Congress passed laws to grant the underground mining rights to certain companies only.
This made the business a hegemonic one.
